Chastity Layman

The night was silent.

Li Shimin held 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, the Taiyuan uprising soldiers fought everywhere. Although there are powerful enemies around, I know who the enemy is and where it is. But 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 the 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 domineering, and that Yang Guang was arrogant, extravagant and licentious, but now that he became 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 this 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 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.

People don't have a goal, and they don't know where to use their strength.

Qin Lang asked what his goal was.

Li Shimin replied almost without hesitation 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 the 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 strength.

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 there is no way to slack off.

Li Shimin agrees with these words very much.

But he was confused, and he 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 target?"

"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 is actually about the Spring and Autumn Period, when King Goujian of Yue was defeated by the King of Wu, and finally retreated to Kuaiji Mountain with 5,000 remnants, and sent envoys to ask the King of Wu for peace. 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, Gou Jian, the king of Yue, suffered a lot later, and finally defeated the Wu army, 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, it 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.

He hopes to break through the fog in front of him as soon as possible, to be able to fight horses again, to expedite the Turkic Northern Expedition happily, and to expand the territory...

early morning.

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

"Your Majesty's decree, the Governor of Zhenfu 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 block the interrogation of all the temples, and start now to fully implement the Shatai Monk Taoist Edict!"

This imperial edict before the Supreme Emperor's abdication was taken out again by Qin Lang, and all the officials from the three provinces above it signed and stamped it, and finally there was the jade seal of Emperor Li Yuan, and even the Shang Shu Ling of Shang Shu Sheng was the name of the current emperor.

"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 understood immediately.

"So that's how it is. It's easy to say that my Zhenfu Division will naturally cooperate with all my strength."

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 temples were much better. After all, they were not as powerful as Buddhism, so they were not the key targets this time.

The temple was sealed off from the square to the temple, 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 they be able to read through more than three scriptures, but they must also have a good understanding of the scriptures.

Even had to be able to write.

To be able to master the scriptures, to copy the scriptures, to be able to explain the 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 original places, and the younger ones immigrated directly to the frontier to cultivate wasteland.

A day of flying dogs.

On the second day, one thousand selected eminent monks with cultivation bases were sent to the palace for an examination 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 imperial examination presided over by the emperor himself was actually very simple. There was a question about 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 writes a thousand-word essay.

In the end, the prime ministers first selected 300 people, and then the emperor selected the three best ones, and awarded them the positions of abbots of the three temples of serving the country, protecting the country, and defending the country, and then the palace examination was 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 was no reason, even if they were ordered, Chang'an City would 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 Army of the Beiya 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 honored relatives, nobles, high-ranking officials and powerful families, saying that a large-scale auction will be held in three days, inviting them 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, all of which were good things.

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