Three days passed in a hurry, and the dusty Li Zhi rushed to Luoyang, went home to wash, and had no time to talk to his family, so he entered the palace to see the emperor.

Yang Tong was discussing the southern expedition with the civil and military ministers in the Xuanzheng Palace, and as soon as he heard Li Zhi's request to see him, he asked people to bring him here, and he had received Ling Jing's eagle letter three days ago, but there were many questions to be asked about Li Zhi, who was in charge of the investigation.

During the Midyear Festival last year, Ma Zhou was introduced by Yang Qinfang to Yang Dong in the way of trouble, and stated to Yang Dong the collusion between the Wheel Sect and the Japanese slaves. The county soldiers of the Wheel Sect were transferred out of Bohai, and Pei Renji, the secretary of the military department, was assigned to the counties of the Central Plains to suppress bandits, and then widely sent credible people into Bohai County to investigate the origin of the so-called sect leader, but the transfer of the county soldiers made the other party settle down for a period of time, and there has been no radical action so far, so Li Zhi has not obtained the information to break the situation, although Ling Jing said in the letter that there is enough information, but there is no specific interview, Yang Tong still does not dare to relax.

He was a soul from the afterlife, and he knew very well that the sect could quickly develop its followers, and that it could sweep through the county in just a few months, and that if it was used by ill-intentioned people, it would cause irreparable damage. At the same time, he also knows the horror of fanatical believers, these people are brainwashed by the doctrine, one by one they are not afraid of death, and the destruction is unimaginable, the most typical is the history of Europe, which is purely a history of religious grievances and wars.

More than 10 years ago, Song Zixian, a native of Tang County, was good at illusion, he could conjure up the form of Buddha, claiming to be Maitreya was born, people near and far believed in him and were confused by it, so Song Zixian planned to take advantage of the uncovered conference to raise troops to attack Yang Guang's car, and was informed by the imperial court in advance, so Song Zixian was executed. More than 1,000 of his henchmen were executed.

There is also a Fufeng monk Xiang Haiming who also claimed to be born as Maitreya, and anyone who has the heart of belonging can have auspicious dreams. Therefore, the people in the Sansuke area unanimously believed in him. So, Xiang Haiming raised troops to rebel, and his troops were as high as tens of thousands. Xiang Haiming proclaimed himself emperor and changed his name to Baiwu. Yang Guang ordered Yang Yichen to crusade and destroy Xiang Haiming.

On the first day of the first month of the first month of another year, there are dozens of people wearing white hats, wearing white clothes, lighting incense and holding flowers, claiming to be Maitreya Buddha, and entering the city from the Dingding Gate of the south gate of Luoyang. The soldiers defending the city collectively kowtowed, these 'Maitreya' snatched weapons, slashed and killed soldiers, the believers in the city echoed, Yang Hui, the king of Qi, came back from participating in the Yuan Dynasty meeting, and happened to meet this group of robbers, and killed these dozens of bandits with a single sword, and then carried out a large-scale search and arrest of Luoyang, and finally more than 1,000 households and tens of thousands of people participated in this rebellion.

So many people have been deceived repeatedly, because the wisdom of the people has not yet been opened, and every time there is a natural or man-made disaster, the helpless people pin their hopes on the ethereal gods and Buddhas, and under the temptation of ill intentions, they are willing to exchange their death in this life for the happiness of the next life, and when they die, they think that they are acting according to the divine will.

This kind of similar riot incident still occurred even in the 20 th century, when the people's wisdom was greatly opened, and the fanatical believers used by the cult leader of **X Gong not only surrounded the imperial capital, the south, and the sea, but also were bewitched and self-immolated in the imperial capital square, and the impact was so great that the whole world was terrified. There seems to be a shadow of Lao Mei behind this incident.

And the best way to deal with this kind of rebellion using religious teachings is not to use the army to suppress it from the people, that will only make things bigger, and even if it is suppressed, it will suffer heavy losses, and there will be countless hatreds left, and the best way is to arrest the core members and slaughter them. Just like Yang Guang did with Song Zixian, he only killed himself and more than 1,000 core disciples, and stopped a large-scale rebellion in time.

If this group of people is not twisted out and completely eradicated, it will not be long before a new cult will be created to demagogue, which is also the reason why Yang Tong is not in a hurry to start;

Second, to the south of Bohai County, is the most famous rebel holy place in the middle and late Sui Dynasty - Douzigang. Whenever the situation is not good, the rebels will quickly turn to Douzigang, which is a swampy area, and it is difficult for the imperial army to exterminate it, and the people behind the Wheel Sect may also have this idea, but this person does not know that Douzigang and another rebel paradise - Qinghe Gaojibo, were all developed into fertile land by Yang Tong. However, in addition to these two rebel holy places, there are also undeveloped swamps such as Fox Lake and Baiyangdian Lake in Hejian County north of Bohai County where they can hide, so Yang Tong did not rush to start before he had accurate information that could be wiped out.

"The last general, Li Zhi, see the saint!" After a while, Li Zhi entered the main hall, and the Xuanzheng Hall was a regular palace for Chang Shen, only talking about monarchs and ministers, not personal friendship, so he did not salute his grandfather Li Jing and other officials.

"General Li is exempt!" Yang Tong's arm was raised falsely, signaling to flatten his body.

"Thank you, Holy Lord." Facing the civil and military ministers who are all together, even if he is the grandson of Li Jing and has seen a lot since he was a child, Li Zhi is inevitably a little nervous at the moment.

Yang Tong, who was high up, couldn't help but laugh when he saw Li Jing glaring at his 'unlucky' grandson. Soldiers, always make Yang Tong feel cordial, in the face of the iron-blooded soldiers of the Great Sui, he is always more tolerant, and said: "You are also a person who has participated in many wars, what are you afraid of?" This rat gall doesn't look like a soldier I brought out. He deliberately pursed his lips as he spoke, as if he was disdainful.

Rat gall?

Li Zhi was a little annoyed, even if it was a radical method, there was no need to hurt people like this, right? Immediately said in a loud voice: "Back to the saint, the last general is not afraid." ”

Yang Tong nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is my soldier, and I will live up to my hopes." ”

Don't talk about it!

The soldiers really eat this set, as soon as Yang Tong said this, Li Zhi proudly held his head high, and the nervous expression before disappeared.

"You've been ordered to investigate the Wheel Sect for almost half a year, and I'll tell you what kind of cult it is." The people here are the most credible confidants, and Yang Tong doesn't need to shy away from anything.

"Back to the Holy Church, this Wheel Sect is actually similar to the previous Maitreya Sect, which uses Buddhist teachings to control people's hearts. However, after half a year of open investigation and covert visits, he found that the Wheel Sect was not really supported by the people. ”

"Why?"

"Nine years of great cause, Song Zixian of Boling Tang County in the name of Maitreya, plotting to attack Emperor Wu, and later was extinguished by the imperial court in time, officials around the country reprimanded it as a cult, so that the people can distinguish right from wrong, at that time in Jizhou had a great impact, to this day, it is less than nine years, and the things that the wheel of the religion has done, and the Maitreya religion is the same, the people regard it as a flood beast, this is one, second, Bohai, Hejian, Boling, plains and other counties are the concentration of the families of the soldiers placed by the saints, and the families of these soldiers believe in the court and the government, In addition, many people were displaced people before, and they also believed in and supported the imperial court, and within a few years after the end of the Hebei War, the people were busy repairing houses and farming, busy making a fortune, and had no time to worship the Wheel Religion; Third, in order to limit the excessive expansion of Buddhism and Taoism, the imperial court wiped out those pseudo-Taoist priests and thieves and monks, which also made the people realize that there are 10,000 monks, I am afraid that none of them are true, even Taoist priests and monks do not believe in it, how can the people believe in this wheel religion of unknown origin? ”

"Then where did the tens of thousands of believers in Bohai County come from?"

"It's a ruffian hooligan and a thief monk who ordered him to return to the world!" Li Zhi glanced at Yang Tong and said: "The ruffians and hooligans claim to be the king and hegemon, and harm the township; The thief monks who were forced to return to the vulgar were accustomed to a luxurious life and were unwilling to go to the land to farm, and these two types of people had the common characteristics of being lazy and oppressing the good people. Most of the people have the idea of calming things down, so they have no choice but to join the Wheel Sect, but as soon as they join, they are controlled by these people and forced to offer their family wealth, and the kind people have a hard time......

Yang Tong was furious when he heard that the ruffians and thieves and monks were forcing the people to join the Wheel Sect in the township, and he tried to restrain the anger in his heart and asked, "Are all the officials of the local government dead?" ”

"The officials of Nanpi County and Yanshan County have all benefited heavily from the Wheel Sect, and they are the cool trees of the Wheel Sect."

"Bang"

Yang Tong's handsome face was distorted, and the heavy imperial case was kicked away by him, and the music on the imperial case flew far away, and the glazed inkstone on the ground fell to the ground and shattered with a "horn".

In an instant, the empty hall fell silent.

The civil and military officials were silent.

"The minister is guilty!"

"The minister is guilty!"

“……”

After a while, Xuan Ling, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Yang Shidao, the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, Wei Zheng, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Liu Zhenghui, the secretary of the Imperial Department, came out to ask for guilt.

Officials misemployed and derelict their duties.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs did not listen to the will of the people and was derelict in its duties.

The Criminal Department is lax in enforcing the law and derelict in its duties.

The Imperial Department was ineffective in supervision and dereliction of duty.

Yang Tong took a deep breath, tried to suppress the anger in his heart, and said, "Punish each of you for one year, can you be convinced?" ”

The four Shangshu said in unison: "Surrender and obey." ”

"Get in the ranks."

"Whoa."

The Great Sui expanded too quickly, and there was a serious shortage of local officials, and there was no one to use, so that some people with low moral integrity and ability also became magistrates, and most of the thoughts of the important ministers of the court were on the enemy and the newly acquired territory, so they couldn't take care of the rear, and it was normal for this to go wrong. Yang Tong knows these problems, but there is no way, some attitudes must be expressed, otherwise the court law will be useless. The four people who were punished also understood Yang Tong's helplessness, otherwise it would not be as simple as a year's salary.

"The family is an official to seek the country, and the lawless officials are to seek wealth... I don't know anyone. A sound legal, supervision, and education mechanism must be perfected as soon as possible. After returning home, the Fourth Department set up more than a dozen patrol teams to go deep into various places to make secret visits and make sure that the black sheep of the herd are brought to justice. ”

"Whoa!"

"I'm out of shape!" Looking at the place, Yang Tong shook his head, didn't bother to pay attention to it, and said to Li Zhi: "You continue." ”

"Yes!" Li Zhi replied and said, "The Wheel Sect is tightly organized, a bit similar to the imperial court military attache system. From top to bottom, they are Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, and Buddha. Buddhists are their lowest position, one Buddha is in charge of a hundred believers, the Buddha is in charge of two Buddhas, the Buddha is in charge of two Buddhas, there are nine Buddhas above the Buddha, and one Buddha is in charge of nine Buddhas, and the leader of the Wheel Sect has two aliases: Buddha and Wheel King. As for what this wheel king looks like, no one has ever seen it, it is said that when he preached the Dharma, a huge Maitreya Buddha composed of green smoke appeared behind him, and this green smoke statue condensed but did not disperse, so many people believed it was true. Moreover, Maitreya Buddha sparkles in the sun, so everyone cannot see his appearance, and believers do not dare to look at it for fear of offending the so-called gods and Buddhas. ”

When he heard the 'sunshine', Yang Tong thought that the 'Maitreya Buddha' might be painted on a convex lens and then shine on the curtain behind the Wheel King, or it might be the Maitreya Buddha made of hollow glass, pouring smoke into it, and it would naturally condense but not disperse, and it was normal for the glass to shine. As for methods such as magic, it is not something that Yang Tong can figure out.

"The county orders and county orders of Nanpi and Yanshan are the four Buddhas of the Wheel Sect." Li Zhi said again.

"In this way, the Wheel Sect is a group of criminals, and the court will kill them, which is a righteous move to eliminate harm for the people." Yang Tong understood and was relieved. With the support of the people who are forced to become believers, things will be simple, just catch these four Buddhas, and you can get the Wheel Wheel Sect by touching the vines.

Li Zhi nodded and said, "That's right." ”

"Holy." At this time, Jiang Xingben, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, came out and bowed: "Whether it is the Maitreya Sect in the past or the current Wheel Sect, the reason why they have developed so rapidly is, in the final analysis, that the local officials have obtained money from it and acquiesced in the expansion of the Wheel Sect. ”

"Jiang Shangshu's words are extremely true, and Weichen has a little to add here."

Du Ruhui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, first agreed with Jiang Xingben, and then bowed to Yang Tong and said his own opinion: "Most of the Buddhist teachings are conducive to the stability of the world. But after all, it is a foreign sect, although it has been bred in the Central Plains for hundreds of years, but its scriptures and teachings have too many customs of the state, even if it absorbs the hundred schools of thought of the Central Plains and improves it, so that it becomes more in line with the world of the Central Plains Dynasty, it is still a lot of ideas that can be used by people with ill intentions. The most typical is the theory of reincarnation advocated by Buddhism, this alone has been used by countless unscrupulous people, only in my Great Sui Dynasty there are many, Song Zixian and Xiang Haiming claimed to be the reincarnation of Maitreya, Zhu Cang claimed to be the reincarnation of King Garuda, and the leader of the wheel is also to Maitreya Buddha...... There are also many thieves who also claim to be the Buddha in the Buddhist family, which also bewitches the ignorant people. And I don't have any reincarnation in the Central Plains, even if the Yellow Turban Rebellion is counted on the head of the Taoists, but the Taiping Dao is also developed by Zhang Jiao himself, and it has nothing to do with reincarnation. Therefore, the article on Buddhist reincarnation must be deleted. ”

"The most hateful point is that the Buddhist doctrine believes that monks are six pure and pure people, and their parents raised them with hard work, but they don't recognize their six relatives, and finally let a happy family be broken, resulting in countless human tragedies, parents, wives and children don't recognize it, of course, they don't take the emperor and the law to heart, and there was even a monk who had no king and no father during the Jin Dynasty wrote an article about why he didn't respect the emperor, which also means that they didn't take the emperor and the law into their eyes at all. If it's true to the Buddha, it's fine, but if not? Is it possible to do evil in the name of 'outsiders'? If so, how can you get it? ”

"And what Buddhists like to do the most is to gather believers to preach the Dharma from time to time, and they always let out the news months in advance to let the believers from all over the world gather in the places where the Dharma is preached. If a monk who preaches Buddhism has a great reputation, he can gather tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people in just a few months, which poses a great security risk to local stability. This is also a custom peculiar to Buddhism, and our local sect does not have such large-scale gatherings. If the organizers are unscrupulous, and there are natural and man-made disasters at that time, they can incite the believers to make trouble and bring great trouble to the imperial court, and if they are not restricted, there will be chaos. "Du Ruhui, an orthodox literati who hated Buddhism, started to 'bombard' Buddhism with the help of the Wheel Religion case.

Everyone bowed their heads one after another, and Yang Tong asked, "How does Du Shangshu think the imperial court supervises?" ”

Du Ruhui replied calmly: "Regarding this point, all dynasties have realized that it is an institution that manages the monastic property of the monks, but this is far from enough. For example, at present, the management of Buddhism is the ancestral department of the Ministry of Rites, which is in charge of the ancestral hall, but there are shortcomings such as too little power and responsibility, not enough personnel, etc., and it is impossible to control the Buddhists all over the world. Therefore, Weichen suggested that the Department of Ancestral Halls should be expanded, and a set of detailed rules should be formulated to restrain and supervise various sects, and they must not be left alone. At present, we can take the opportunity of restricting the Buddha to order the Buddhists to delete the unreasonable teachings, otherwise they will not be allowed to preach. As for Buddhist gatherings, the restrictions are set on the individual basis of monasteries, stipulating that temples can only hold assemblies once every three or five years, and strictly limiting the scale, and if the number of believers exceeds the prescribed number, it will be regarded as a conspiratorial conspiracy. ”

"The minister seconded the proposal, at present, I am limiting the Buddha and destroying the Buddha in the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, the reason is to wipe out the fake monks and thieves and Taoists, and return the Buddha's innocence; In these actions, the Sui and Tang dynasties stood on the height of morality, so they received strong support from Buddhist believers, which was a godsend. Yang Gongren came out and agreed.

The crowd agreed.

These important ministers in the court are all well-informed and well-informed, and they know that Buddhism is a sharp double-edged sword, and if they can control it under the law, then like Confucianism, they are the right-hand man of the imperial court to stabilize the world, and on the contrary, they will become a hidden danger that shakes the foundation of the imperial court. Therefore, we must take advantage of the opportunity when everyone shouts to crack down on thieves and fake monks, and bring the Buddhism that has fallen into a historical trough into the management of the law. If this trend is over, it will be difficult to intervene arbitrarily, and the manpower and material resources required will be countless times higher than in front of us, and if it is not done well, it will lead to a rebellion of fanatical followers of Buddhism.

"I am very relieved that Zhu Qing can attach so much importance to Buddhism. I agreed to the expansion of the Ministry of Rites and Ancestral Halls, but what was imminent was the various restraint systems, and the Criminal Department, the Imperial Department, and the Dali Temple sent officials who were proficient in the law to cooperate with the completion of the implementation, and the general framework was implemented first, and it was not too late to slowly improve the rules in the future. ”

"Whoa." The four ministers responded in unison.

"In addition, it is also necessary to intensify the propaganda among the people, so that the people know that in addition to the sects approved by the imperial court, all cults founded without authorization are for the purpose of seeking money and killing people, and there will be rewards for reporting them." Speaking of this, Yang Tong thought of a way, and then said: "In order to allow the people to distinguish between right and wrong, the Ministry of Rites issued plaques to the temples and Taoist temples recognized by the imperial court, requiring them to be hung in the most conspicuous place of the main hall. ”

"The Holy Law is wonderful!" Fang Xuanling arched his hand and said: "Weichen suggested that this plaque be compared to the color of the court officials' uniforms, set to crimson, green, blue, yellow, white, and black, all of which were cyan at the beginning, and those who had a good reputation within a year were successively promoted to dark blue, light green, dark green, light crimson, and dark crimson, and those with a bad reputation were reduced to dark yellow, light yellow, moonlight, pure white, and black. In order to get the support of the government and the belief of the people, even if there is no need for officials to supervise at all times, the hosts of various temples and Taoist temples themselves will strictly manage the people below, and the monks and Taoists will not dare to do evil, which can also reduce the pressure on the court and local officials. ”

"Fang Shangshu's method is good, quasi-play."

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Soldiers of the Republic of Wuwei Civilization:

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Allow me to say, 'You've done a great job!' ’

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