It is like the Shaolin Temple which has dozens of lower courts and branch temples specializing in lending and operating value and industry, and constantly regular blood transfusions. It also owns a large area of top-grade land in Zhengzhou’s Dengfeng County Shaolin Temple; Wutai Mountain is known for its generous Lingjiu Temple. Tongsi, the core monastery group also directly or indirectly entrusted the best fields and properties located near Wutai Mountain and across several counties.
Therefore, the Taiping Army’s mature countermeasure for similar monasteries and monks is to take measures to deal with the monasteries separately; after the registration of the heads and industries of the corresponding monasteries has been completed, the concealment is naturally the direct confiscated without the owner. , And a large number of land tenants in the declaration will also be transferred to the local citizenship management on the grounds of affecting the practice and the cleansing of the monk.
For small monasteries with less than ten people, the status quo will be temporarily maintained; the middle and upper-level figures in the large monasteries will be relocated, and they will first go to Taiyuan to participate in the study class and then be assigned to other places. More than two-thirds of the remaining monasteries are forced to recruit some literate monks to participate in the popularization of basic education.
Then they dispatched the monks trained in the Taiping Dudu’s Mansion to take over the management and management of the corresponding monasteries; in this way, they were mixed with sand to disguise and control these non-productive religious groups, so that they could become more important to the society of the new dynasty. The impact on productivity is minimized, and even harmless and philanthropic; because all registered monks must be in the world for a period of time.
Then, under the arrangements and formulation of the Taiping Governor’s House, it will provide social service projects for a period of time, such as regularly teaching children in the villages to learn literacy and arithmetic, participating in a mobile propaganda team to go to places, and sing the Taiping Army’s policy guidelines and latest updates. Laws, taxes, etc. Although it may not be so willing at the beginning, it is easy to get used to it after a long time in the general environment.
Because they are not used free of charge in the Taiping Army system, there will also be basic remuneration and supplies that they want to use, and even corresponding symbolic remuneration. Therefore, in this process, it is very easy for these middle and lower monks to undergo transformation and transformation; if they cannot withstand the weird test of the red dust, it is natural to demand that they return to the commonplace; at least it increases the base of production and taxation.
However, true practitioners who have a stronger mind to become a monk are also a way out with arrangements within the system. For example, in the Buddhist academies set up in the two capitals and ten prefectures, further studies include more than diligence in Buddhism. At least, after leaving the relatively closed environment under the original monastery system, basically few people can still adhere to the original set of values and cognition.
After all, with the exception of Tantric Buddhism, which was sought after by the royal family in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and later came to the top of Wutai Mountain. The local monasteries included the popular Fa Xiangzong, Lvzong, Tiantai Sect, Huayan Sect, Pure Land Sect, Tantric Sect, Zen Sect, as well as the Xiantong Temple Tenglan Sect, which inherited the lineage of the two high monks of Kashe Moten and Zhufalan; The time is not so hug and always harmonious.
Of course, in the beginning, most people who are vested interests will not accept the new changes so willingly, and even try to do something to resist it. However, the army stationed at the foot of the mountain and the resulting firearms were prepared for this. As the saying goes, all beings are equal before the cannon, and the party who owns steel and gunpowder is obviously much more equal.
Under normal circumstances, as long as the sound of a cannon shot, most people have seen the golden body of the Buddha and Bodhisattva and the dangers of the high wall against bandits and theft. Under the power of cannons, grenades, and firecrackers, they can hardly protect themselves. After being unreliable, naturally it calmly became a model of good people in the world who accepted reality. After all, the monks don’t talk, and their bodies are very honest.
Of course, as the existence of ignorance of the number of days and daring to resist stubbornly, it was just used as a ready-made example to kill a hundred people, not to mention maintaining the final inheritance and being decent, in the end there is basically no need for the temple itself to exist. Isn’t the Taiping Army’s new dynasty unable to do things that all the dynasties of Sanwuyizong have done? Is it disgusting with the knife or the gunpowder is not powerful
Therefore, although Wutai Mountain is known as a mountain, it is actually not a rugged stronghold and there are not many strongholds; and the temples on the mountain and down the mountain are many monks, but after all, they are not strong enough to think that they can be protected by swordsmen and soldiers. ; In fact, foreign troops do not need to attack, as long as the peaks are surrounded, those monasteries that do not have any extra fields will have to cry alive.
Therefore, later generations will love to see it compiled, and the so-called story of Yang Wulang resisting the enemy based on Mount Wutai is just a romance. Therefore, not long after, the monasteries headed by Dafang Lingjiu Temple/Xiantong Temple still bowed their heads to accept the reality, handed over many deeds and monks' books, and then accepted the distinction from the Taiping Army in the most spacious forecourt of the monastery. Check one by one.
From the young and strong monks to witness each other in the roster, and then to the middle-aged monks. Finally, even the elderly monks and monks who were sick in bed were brought out for verification. Of course, there will be some special cases selected during this process, such as those who are larger or more vicious in appearance, or look too young or seem to be newly shaved.
Then these selected monks will undergo a second test in the expropriated room; and some older middle-aged and old monks are specially selected for identification and confirmation with their faces masked. At this time, the existence of some problems with daily behavior and performance will be exposed in the process; for example, wealthy families, officials and officials who shelter in Buddhism under the guise of ordination, and even some new entrants who are involved in the crime of criminals. .
Then, in individual monasteries, it was even found that women who were wearing monks’ clothes and hiding in the monastery were operating normally. Even so, when I finally checked that one of the three great scholars of the Tang Dynasty was not Kong Sanzang, the master of the Suzong dynasty was not Kong Sanzang, and his disciple Hanguang was called to build a tantric monastery, the Kinkakuji, but there was another accident. . The Taiping sergeant who went to check in was accidentally attacked and resisted.
Of course, this kind of manipulative resistance is destined to be futile. The resisters gathered in it were quickly broken by the cannons that were pushed up the mountain to break the sealed courtyard wall, and then used explosive bombs to drive people out of the hidden building, and they were easily suppressed under the firing of several rounds of guns. . In the end, only dozens of bloody corpses were pulled out, as well as hidden knives, guns, crossbows and other objects, which was regarded as a bloody end to this search activity.
However, what is surprising is that the follow-up search and cleanup of the Kinkakuji Temple has once again unearthed many decayed corpses from the remaining traces of the monks, temples and flower beds; the ones that have never been rotted clean. From the perspective of the clothes of the monks, it is where the remains of the former Jingkong Temple and other monks are located, but I don't know when they were taken over by these unknown strongmen and the nests were occupied by birds for some time.
Then, when he picked up the belongings hidden in the temples and temples, he made a surprising discovery again; and Zhao Jingfan, the Lang general who led the team to clear the Wutaishan Temple, quickly sent an emergency to the northern capital of Taiyuan. Contact messenger. And a few days later, the news from Taiyuan, the northern capital, also flew over the steep mountains through carrier pigeons, and arrived at the communications office of one of the confidential departments in Luoyang.
Therefore, when Zhou Huaian got the news, it was on the day of the "Shangsi Festival" on March 3. The two sides of Luoshui, which runs through the north and south of Luodu, are also full of people who carry out traditional "exhaust bathing" activities, or hold rituals for their daughters who have just reached the fifteenth birthday, and set up a place. Curtains and screen seats;
In the traditional scenic spots and famous sights of the city, such as Baofu Temple, Yanxing Garden, Furong Tower, Jingu Garden, Tongtuoli, etc., distributed along the river bank, it is also a joyful sight of pedestrians and ladies who travel in spring. Many temples and temples hired many advocates and musicians in Mingyifang, and they played and sang in the daytime to promote their fame and excitement.
Of course, standing between the Zuoye Gate of Onei Imperial City (Ziweicheng), which is the highest terrain, and Chengfu Gate of Dongjiacheng, is located at the triple-round tower-style building at the southeast corner of the city wall called Wufeng Tower. The top; Zhou Huaian can easily see most of the scenery. The scenes of the various BMW scented cars and spruce temples are as if the time has suddenly flown back to the prime of the Tang Dynasty.
What's more, those people who hold "exhaust baths" or rituals, although they use curtains and barriers to shield and protect the privacy of the surrounding each other; but they have a view of the condescending position in the tall buildings of the city wall. Zhou Huaian, who has zoom and focus functions, has a barely guarded view.
Therefore, he can grandly see a lot of beautiful things that are white and tender, or beautiful like a peach, or Fengyuan like the moon, between the undressing and washing actions, which are looming and moving. Then I felt that Luodu was indeed the place where the customs of the old Tang Dynasty remained and preserved the most; so that the women who gave birth were generally more plump and fairer than elsewhere.
And at this time, it will inevitably lead to the side pockets, dwellings, and small pendants who accompany them, and they will inevitably complain, complain, and complain; then they will be picked up by Zhou Huaian to play "angry". The new fun of rushing through the barrier, "Xiaoxiao Yuxue"; then, in the multiple shocks and excitement of fear of heights, exposure, radiation, etc., he involuntarily became a mess of mud.
An urgent message from Hedong was sent to Zhou Huai'an under this circumstance; but he touched Han Jiyue, who was struggling like a live fish, but couldn’t help being surprised. :
"So, when they inadvertently checked the monastery in Mount Wutai, they found the trail of Li Ke who had fled after the war?"
Later, according to the dictation of Yiying/Ye Zhiqing, who was temporarily serving as the clerical assistant at the scene, Zhou Huaian slowly understood a series of things that were found out in the follow-up. But before Li Keyu was completely defeated, he had secretly arranged a retreat and a hiding place; therefore, the only place on Wutai Mountain was located in a remote and steep place between the central and southern Taiwan, and there was very little communication with the outside world. Kinkakuji became the target.
Therefore, without disturbing most of the people in the monastery, this tantric monastery has been changed hands accidentally and silently. After all, because of the war, there are not a few people who have successively fled to the mountains and escaped the military chaos. Even the Kinkakuji Temple also accepted several batches of believers who defected. It is not unusual;
In addition, including the former owner of the Golden Pavilion Temple, a group of high-ranking monks and upper-level representatives on the mountain were once found by the Northern Capital to pray for the new monarch, and then they were stranded there and never returned. Therefore, no one has discovered the abnormality so far, so a lot of food, grass and weapons have been stored in it just in case.
Except for some monks involved in foreign affairs, the others were also replaced by the Zhuxie headquarters of the Shatuo tribe, and even the most loyal soldiers of the same clan. But what is surprising is that they have not been seized until today. There was no expectation that Li Keyong, who went up the mountain and went into hiding, had no more news after the other party sent someone to inform them in advance to prepare.
This should be the end of the matter, but Zhao Jingfan, the deputy veteran who was in charge of clearing Wutai Mountain, had a small school from the former Shanxi Army who was also a guide Liu Wei, but he suggested that while sending out troops to search the mountains, Also thoroughly check the foothills of the valleys between the peaks of Mount Wutai, where the towns and cities that developed by relying on the monastery for a living are located.
This search inevitably found many hidden dirt and dirt that looked like black under a lamp; of course, most of them were related to temples on the mountains, such as monks raising women privately and giving birth to children in private, and then living at home like the world. Or it is a special hospital dedicated to monks, providing special services in the name of a nunnery for lonely women, and a bunch of dirty and filthy things;
In the future, its own branch office was not mentioned in the urgent subpoena. However, another clue was accidentally involved; it was accidentally seized in the hands of a group of spoilers, possibly related to the escaped Li Keyu. Then it involved a soil group once formed by several market towns under the mountain; some of them fled into the nearby mountains after being demobilized and became small groups of bandits.
It is said that they have robbed a lot of wealthy households and officials' homes on Mount Wutai; and these objects were released by them and then secretly sold by these rascals. And when Zhou Huaian heard this, he couldn't help but sigh and wonder. Could it be that Li Ya'er, who was known as Qiangxiong I and the son of a considerable part of the era's luck, was so easily damaged in an unknown place in the mountain
Later, under Ye Zhiqing's reading, Zhou Huaian also unsurprisingly indirectly felt and restored the last moment of the dead end of the Five Dynasties, who was once called the first life with Zhu Lao San. Probably on the way to escape, Li Keyong had made up his mind to pretend to be a monk and hid in Wutai Mountain, but he was met with rebellion and resistance from his followers;
Perhaps after a fight, although the rebels were killed, there were only a handful of people who followed Li Keyong. Then they changed their faces into monks, and hit the mountain where these soil groups had been transformed. Bandit traps; then, even when they were injured and at the end of their crossbow, they still couldn't protect themselves. In the end, they could only die aggrieved in the hands of these bandits.
Therefore, in the end, from under the cliff near the place where the bandits were flattened out to abandon corpses, only fragments of monks’ robes and clothing were found, as well as the remaining leg bones and pelvic bones that could not be eaten by the wild beasts in the mountains; Among the personal belongings such as golden tortoise bags and tramps found in the settlement, how many golden buttons and jade charms that can indirectly prove their identity have been found.
This also means that once the leader of a foreign tribe who was not famous, the re-establishment of the Li Tang banner also created a legendary figure of the era, another time and space line of the post-Tang Taizu; this is the last point of life. .
Hearing this, Zhou Huaian couldn't help but burst into laughter with mixed feelings, but Han Jiyue, who was panting in her arms, was surprised:
"Why is the Lord laughing? Is Yue Slave not serving well enough?"
When Zhou Huaian heard the words, he did not hesitate to turn her in a straddle face to face, and then let her arms bend and support the ground.
"No, no, just a little memory of the ancients; by the way, let's change a trick to celebrate and mourn..." (End of this chapter)