Chapter 393: Destroy the Buddha! Rectify the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples!

Zhang Gui looked at the group of bureaucrats and eunuchs in front of him and couldn't help but smile.

He was not sneering, but applauding his guess, thinking that after he made his words clear, these bureaucratic eunuchs who were like savvy officials would soon be willing to continue working hard for the people.

If Zhang Gui wants to complete his own transformation and then let Ming Dynasty follow suit, he still needs the cooperation of the entire bureaucratic class.

Therefore, he carefully negotiated with Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang in the Policy Department, instead of relying on the emperor's favor and trust, and directly driving civil servants like dogs like Wei Zhongxian, the man in power in history.

After all, even the current work to rectify Buddhist temples and Taoist temples will require the entire bureaucracy to implement it.

Not to mention that Zhang Gui was just a favorite, even the emperor himself could not achieve the rectification of Buddhist temples and Taoism without leaving the entire bureaucratic class.

From the provincial governors to the subordinate officials at the prefecture and county levels, as well as the creation of public opinion, all had to be carried out by bureaucrats such as Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang.

Unless Zhang Gui just wants to make money and doesn't want to do serious work, in that case, just use any bureaucrat to do it.

Because as long as you are an individual, once you have power, you will naturally be motivated to make money, and you will even learn to do it yourself.

But bureaucrats who are willing to do the right thing are not so easy to find.

It just so happens that people like Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang are now bureaucrats who are willing to change the law and get things done.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Gui to replace them, and he also needs their cooperation to let them use their people to achieve Zhang Gui's purpose.

Yuan Keli, Chen Zizhuang, Wei Zhongxian and others are now on Zhang Gui's pirate ship. From the moment they decide to preside over the reform, they must continue to follow Zhang Gui.

Therefore, after Zhang Gui explained the truth, these people all agreed to Zhang Gui's proposal.

Therefore, not long after, an edict was officially issued to rectify Buddhist temples and Taoist temples all over the world. Chen Zizhuang, a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and the Minister of Rites, was specially commissioned to supervise the affairs of the world's obscene temples and evil practices, and visited Buddhist temples and Taoist temples all over the world.

At the same time, all governors and inspectors across the country also received edicts to rectify Buddhist temples and Taoist temples across the country.

It is already the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, and it has been nearly ten years since the Ming Dynasty Reform and Reform.

Now the entire bureaucracy, from the central court to the local governments, has long been replaced by those who support the reform and those who do not oppose the support of the reform.

In addition, the examination law has been implemented for nearly ten years, the number of mediocre and lazy officials has been greatly reduced, and the delay in government affairs has been seriously reduced. Therefore, after Yuan Keli and Chen Zizhuang, the ministers at the central court's ruling level, reached an agreement, the following was implemented

The policy will not be violated in both positive and negative ways.

Moreover, the civil service reform in recent years has not only not eliminated officials, but also added many officials. Therefore, it can be said that the Ming court has further strengthened its control over the grassroots and broke the situation where imperial power did not go to the countryside.

In addition, the recent restructuring has given civil servants the opportunity to become officials after passing the examination.

Therefore, the lower-level subordinates are much more motivated to implement policies.

Therefore, after the edict to rectify Buddhist temples is issued, there will be no ineffective implementation of the policy. If there is, it will only be over-implementation and layer upon layer overloading.

However, this rectification is to rectify Buddhist temples, not against the common people, so even if it is excessively implemented, it will not cause too serious damage to the internal public sentiment.

Soon after Yan Yingyuan, the magistrate of Qingping County, received the edict and received instructions from his superiors, he gathered his county government and all officials and servants and began to reorganize Buddhist temples throughout the county.

Yan Yingyuan also personally came to Chongyu Temple, the largest temple in his county, and summoned the abbot of the temple, Master Zhiqing, and immediately announced an imperial edict to him, asking him to return his land to the people.

Master Zhiqing was angry and aggrieved. Before Yan Yingyuan called him up, he stood up and shouted at Yan Yingyuan: "What on earth are Yuan Liqing and the others going to do before they give up?! They cleared the land, paid the Ding tax into the land, and here comes another one."

The officials and gentry all paid the grain and worked as errands together. This was not the end of the story. In Jiangnan, the fields were divided directly and then changed.

Change the imperial examination system to the ritual system! Because of this, we Confucian and Neo-Confucian students no longer want to serve as officials, gentry or the people, and have hid in this ancient temple in the mountains. Why don't they let us go! In the name of rectifying the Buddhist temple,

Let us have no place to stand! Why don't they just send troops to completely slaughter us disciples of Neo-Confucianism?!"

Master Zhiqing was actually an official before he became a monk. The local gentry was dissatisfied with the New Deal and wanted to evade taxes and continue to live a life of enslaving the Han people, so he donated his land to this temple and became a

The new abbot of this temple, and in fact, this temple is his family's temple. His family is a wealthy and prominent family in the local area, so it is not difficult to maintain a temple.

For example, in the Dream of Red Mansions, the Jia family has a family temple, the Tiekan Temple, and various nunneries.

Therefore, Master Zhiqing could completely change from a gentry who valued Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism to the abbot of a Buddhist temple in an instant. He just changed his identity, but he was still essentially a landlord.

Precisely because of this, Master Zhiqing directly scolded Yuan Keli. Obviously, he must have been an old acquaintance with Yuan Keli, who was also a member of the gentry family, but they took different paths.

"Master must have misunderstood. This has nothing to do with Neo-Confucianism. Maybe it has something to do with Buddhism. As Mr. Chen Ge said, Buddha saves the people, not exploits them, so how can there be tenants in a Buddhist temple? I am here today just to organize things.

It's just a Buddhist temple and a Taoist temple. As long as you cooperate, the Buddhist temple will naturally remain, and those who have the ultimatum can still live here to chant sutras and recite the Buddha's name."

Yan Yingyuan said.

Master Zhiqing snorted coldly: "Unless I die! Otherwise, how can you destroy my Buddhist purity?!"

Master Zhiqing is naturally unwilling.

Because although the Terada temple property in this area is said to belong to Chongyu Temple, it is actually his own family's land property. He just donated it to the temple and turned it into the Terada temple. Even the novice monks in the Buddhist temple and even the nunnery attached thereto

All the nuns were his original servants and maids, but now they have just changed their identities, allowing him to continue to live the life of a master before.

That’s why Master Zhiqing said this.

"Well! Since you disobeyed the will, as the parent of this county, I naturally have to make decisions for the people and exercise power for the emperor!"

After Yan Yingyuan finished speaking, he drew his sword and stabbed a snow-white sharp knife directly into Master Zhiqing's abdomen.

Phew!

Master Zhiqing glanced at Yan Yingyuan in shock and vomited blood: "You are so willing to sacrifice your life for them!"

"Huanghuang Tianen, how can you not sacrifice yourself for the country?!"

After Yan Yingyuan asked, he took out his knife, pointed at the monks who were stagnant on the spot, and ordered: "Conquer the Buddhist temple immediately! Lock everyone up first! Start rectifying it!"

"yes!"

The officials under Yan Yingyuan's command, as well as the police trainees from the county police academy who were temporarily transferred along, also responded.

It turned out that after the Ming Dynasty established the Ministry of Civil Affairs, it planned to use the hundreds of millions of taels of silver as special funds to benefit the people. Considering that what the people in the world needed most now was a job to make a living, they simply ordered all states and counties to establish a Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The Police Academy specializes in training rural residents to serve as police officers and be responsible for local security.

Therefore, Qingping County now also has a group of civilians who have become police trainees, preparing to officially become paid police soldiers after completing their training.

Turning back to the topic, after Yan Yingyuan gave the order, these subordinate officials and police trainees rushed into the temple like a swarm and tied up all the monks.
Chapter completed!