Crossing the Condor Heroes: The First Sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 679 The First Agreement

Li Qingwei looked at Zhuge Qingyun at this moment, and he asked, "Prime Minister, how many temples are there in my Tang Dynasty?"

Zhuge Qingyun said: "Now my territory of the Tang Dynasty spans Yong, Henan and Yi. Although it is a barren land, there are more than temples including large temples, small temples, and family temples. Among them, there are more than registered monks. Ten thousand. Now that the world is tentatively settled, there are still some monks who are no longer registered."

"Because of years of war, the common people felt precarious and went to pray for blessings one after another. As a result, the temple circle occupied land and accumulated a lot of wealth, and most of the statues in it were made of pure copper. Even the 'Jian'an Tongbao' we just issued was also destroyed by them. Make new idols. The people have no money."

"Furthermore, according to Mr. Duan's investigation, quite a few temples even raise women. Especially in the old Mongolian land we won. They even retain the Mongolian 'right of first night' rule, and the tenant farmers around Minnie girls must be 'consecrated by the master' before they can marry."

"And there are more" Zhuge Qingyun paused at this point.

Li Qingwei's blood pressure was already a little high, he continued trembling and asked: "Go ahead." Although he had seen the shitty things done by these monks in the history books, but now he heard the report of his court officials with his own ears , He couldn't help but his blood pressure soared.

Zhuge Qingyun looked at Li Qing's trembling in anger, and he was secretly happy. He continued: "And some temples also raise monks and soldiers privately, and do not accept the jurisdiction of the court. There are a lot of armor and swords hidden in them. And besides raising women In addition, they often deceive women from good families in the name of 'gods begging for children', tricking them into staying in temples and having sex with them."

After listening, Li Qingwei clenched her fists tightly.

My little apprentice grew up with me. If it comes to talk about it, it is not an exaggeration for Master Yin Zhiping to say that he is his "adoptive father".

Seeing the change in Li Qingwei's expression, he said, "Your Majesty, please calm down!"

Hearing Master's words, Li Qingwei took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.

No wonder there are "three martial arts and one sect" in history who exterminated monks. These monks have indeed gone too far.

Although the disciples of Quanzhen sect also practice swordsmanship, Quanzhen Taoism has never hidden armor.Not to mention raising women in the "Pure Land" and "Pure Land".

Although Quanzhen Dao also takes in Kun Dao, everyone respects each other with courtesy.

Even though Master Ma Yu and Sun Xiangu were husband and wife before, since they were enlightened by Patriarch Chongyang and entered Taoism, they are only referred to as "dao friends", not husband and wife.

Except for the scum like Zhen Zhibing, everyone else in Quanzhen Taoism is very disciplined, even Zhao Zhijing, who is treasonous and defected to the enemy.

Zhao Zhijing was just greedy for power and used all means.But there is nothing wrong with his style of work.

As for Li Qingwei "not abiding by the rules and regulations", although he was not expelled from the school, he returned to vulgarity early.

Li Qingwei is very repulsed by this kind of monk's crime.

If you can't bear the pain of Qingxiu, you can return to the vulgar and go home early like Li Qingwei, and become a "great vulgar person".

If you insist on becoming a monk, then you should practice honestly and cleanse yourself to save the truth.

But in the name of a monk, he avoided taxation, labor, and military service.The hardships that monks should have suffered have not been suffered at all, and the blessings that lay people should have enjoyed have not been left behind.

Then become a big landlord and fish the common people to collect money.Under the banner of God to cheat food and drink, to fool the people.Li Qingwei couldn't bear this.

If this is the case, then let him return to the vulgar honestly, so as to save him from wasting the country's resources all day long.

Li Qingwei said at this time: "Okay, I understand, and I will arrange things later. Master, Prime Minister, you should step down first."

After finishing speaking, Zhuge Qingyun and Yin Zhiping withdrew one after another.

Regarding Li Qingwei's decision, Yin Zhiping didn't give any opinion. After all, he is an outsider and a monk. The duty of a monk is to ignore the secular world and concentrate on practicing.

Moreover, he also very much rejected the act of annexing land and letting the people support religion.

He is a Quanzhen Taoist, and Yin Zhiping's understanding of the Three Views made him unable to accept this kind of thing.

In his cognition, all Taoist disciples should be "naturally self-supporting and self-sufficient".On weekdays, it is enough to eat the wind and drink the dew, rely on one's own efforts, and accept alms from some faithful men and women appropriately.

If a monk pays too much attention to the "yellow and white things" of the lay people, wouldn't it run counter to the original heart of Taoism?

As for Zhuge Qingyun, although he didn't lie, he deliberately provoked Li Qingwei.

Because Zhuge Qingyun is a practical man, these monks are indeed a little too much.They annexed too much land, leaving most of the common people without land to cultivate.

Moreover, the magnificence of their temples was decorated with a lot of people's fat and people's ointment. The most important thing is that the court ran out of copper coins.The people have no money to use.

In some places in the majestic Tang Dynasty, "bartering" or "cloth" instead of coins were used for transactions.This is too much, this incident is a slap in the face of his "Prime Minister".

And the price for them to get the land is to do a puja for the wealthy households, and then let the wealthy households "dedicate" to them, the "servants of the gods".

People who practice Confucianism and Taoism like Zhuge Qingyun scoff at this kind of behavior of getting something for nothing and fooling the people by relying on small tricks.

Confucianism emphasizes "benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, filial piety, faith and loyalty", and these monks deprive the people of the land on which they live, that is "inhumanity". ", deceiving the landlord class to dedicate land to the temple is "unbelief".

It is "rude" to seduce a woman from a good family and trick her into having sex with her.

This kind of "unkind, unrighteous, untrustworthy, and disloyal" organization should have been dealt with by the court long ago.

While in Bashu, the incense in some temples in Bashu was still very strong.

Back then, the Zhuge family was a big family, and they also gave alms to the temple.

But this kind of offering and giving is not the "good fruit" that these monks said, but the intensified deception.

One of Zhuge Qingyun's family sisters was tricked into having sex with monks in the temple because she had not been able to conceive all year round.

Although she became pregnant later, the child was not like her husband after the birth, but like a monk in the monastery.

Therefore, the husband's family took advantage of it, not only broke the marriage and made Zhuge's family lose face, but also immersed the clan sister and the child in a pig cage.

But the stinky monk who cheated the women didn't suffer any punishment.

In their mouths, it became a "definite number", a "bad fate" and a "doom of life".

This made Zhuge Qingyun a little restless. The flower pickers who raped and humiliated women were governed by the court's law, and they were directly beheaded.

And these monks stole women from good families, resulting in two lives and a broken family.When we get to them, it becomes a "fixed number".

However, although this monk was not punished by the government or the temple's precepts, Zhuge Qingyun personally punished him.

Zhuge Qingyun avenged his younger sister and brother-in-law. He tied up the smelly monk at night, made a large Kongming lantern, tied him to it, and finally sent him "to the west".

(End of this chapter)