Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

In the eyes of everyone, Ma Zhou ran away in despair, got into the carriage and rushed back to the imperial city, telling all about Li Yi'an's stay in Wannian County.

Li Shimin said angrily: "Those Buddhist monks are so courageous, don't think that I dare not do anything to them! Fu Qing, you should do what Mr. said now, and then go and check all the Buddhist monks, and you can confiscate not a single thing." Can't fall."

"Yes!"

Fu Yi was also very angry.

Li Yi'an can be said to be his bosom friend, and besides him in the entire Tang Dynasty, he is the second person who advocates rectifying Buddhism.

Now that Li Yi'an was approached by Buddhist sects to denounce him, how could Fu Yi just sit idly by and take people there right away to evacuate those Buddhist temples.

Since the monks are going to make trouble, let's see who can make it to the end.

"Ma Qing, do you have any other requests?" Li Shimin asked.

"No, sir, His Majesty doesn't need to pay attention to those troublemakers." Ma Zhou shook his head and said.

Li Shimin was filled with guilt again. It was easy for him to drive away the troublemakers. As long as the army entered the city, they would first arrest a group of people and beat them if they dared to resist.

But his doing so will definitely cause opposition from many ministers, especially Xiao Yu and others. After all, the court also needs a balance. This plan to rectify Buddhism may fail, and all efforts made will be in vain.

Li Shimin was thinking in his heart that his husband told him not to worry about those things, but in fact he didn't want to embarrass him.

However, he was overcompensating, and Li Yi'an had already thought of a way to deal with it.

"Come on, bring the prince and Kong Yingda over here!"

Thinking of this, Li Shimin felt that he had to do something for his husband.

After a while, Li Chengqian and Li Chengqian appeared in the Ganlu Hall.

"His Majesty!"

Li Chengqian also knew that he had said something wrong, and he pretended to admit his mistake obediently.

Kong Yingda bowed his hands in panic. He also realized that he had done something wrong, so he shouldn't be so anxious to expose Li Yi'an's affairs. For example, it is easy to find him now.

"Kong Yingda, how many years have you been by my side?"

Li Shimin said lightly.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty!"

Kong Yingda was shocked. If it was before, Li Shimin would call him Kong Qing or Kong Gong, and call him by his first name. This was the first time in so many years, and he quickly said: "I know I was wrong!"

"I ask you, how old is it?"

Li Shimin's voice was so cold that one could tremble.

"In the fourth year of Wude, after His Majesty pacified Wang Shichong, I have been with His Majesty. At the beginning, I was a Bachelor of Literature in the Qin Palace, and it has been more than six years."

Kong Yingda said.

"More than six years, you have been by my side for so many years, and you are still the prince and grand teacher, Donggong Zhan Shi, and I still want to entrust you with the future of the prince. I don't care about the grievances with my husband before, after all, you are also for the prince. good."

Li Shimin's tone was full of disappointment, and he said again: "You should also know what I want to do and what I don't want to do, but because of your private grievances, you told your husband out?"

Kong Yingda bowed and bowed: "Chen... I was confused for a while, but the Buddhism really... goes beyond that!"

His head was covered with cold sweat, and he was extremely nervous. He wanted to explain a sentence or two to himself, but he didn't know how to explain it.

Li Shimin questioned: "Do you think Buddhism should not be rectified? Or are you questioning whether the evidence Fu Qing recovered was forged? Or, after you became a teacher, you want to betray your teacher and worship Buddhism? You must know that Buddhism , came from a foreign country.”

The first teacher is Confucius.

In the seventh year of Wude, Li Yuan named Confucius as his first teacher.

In the second year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin would confer on Confucius as a sage, but now it is the end of the first year of Zhenguan, and it is not yet time to confer.

"I dare not, I deserve to die!"

Kong Yingda's voice trembled more than before.

To be questioned about betraying Confucianism, for him, it was like rubbing his reputation on the ground.

From Li Shimin's voice, he could also hear that it was extremely angry.

"Where are you from?"

Li Shimin asked again.

"Hengshui, Jizhou!"

"Then go back to your Hengshui!"

"Your Majesty, please give me another chance!"

Kong Yingda knelt down this time and asked him to go back wherever he came from. This is not to let him go home after his official career, so that he doesn't have to think about getting closer to the peak of power in the future.

This is even more serious than Lu Deming's punishment.

What's more, being dismissed by Li Shimin will also have a great impact on his reputation. An older person like him will value his reputation more, and he doesn't want to end up in a bad reputation after his death.

"Can't you hear my words?"

Li Shimin's voice was even colder.

Kong Yingda knew that there was no way to redeem it, wishing that there would be a regret medicine in front of her eyes, so she could only bow and bow tremblingly, and exit the Manna Hall.

At this moment, he seemed to be several years old, walking wobbly and falling down at any time.

"Li Chengqian!"

Li Shimin said angrily.

"Your Majesty, I know I was wrong!"

Li Chengqian looked aggrieved.

Seeing him like this, Li Shimin didn't know how to get angry.

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Wannian County.

The group of people were still here, and as time passed, it was almost evening, and they were tired after shouting for so long, and the chaotic voices outside finally stopped.

"Not good, not good!"

"Master, the Chongren Department came to investigate our Buddhist temple again, and he took away our last golden body!"

At this time, a monk from a Buddhist temple ran over and said.

"what?"

An old monk jumped up immediately, but because of sitting for a long time, his legs were numb and he almost couldn't stand still. He said loudly: "Go back, let's go back quickly!"

They protested against Li Yi'an outside, and people from the Chongren Department went to the Buddhist temple to steal the house, how could this allow them to succeed.

When the other monks heard this, they panicked and shouted to go back. If they stayed here, the Buddhist temple would have to be emptied.

"Zen Master Fa Ya, it's inconvenient for us to stay any longer, let's go first!"

"Go back quickly, we must stop the Chongren Department, we only have one golden body left."

Now the Chongren Administration is only doing something to a Buddhist temple, and there should be still time for them to go back now.

"You guys... come back!"

Falla jumped up, yelled, and could only stare as they went away.

After a while, two-thirds of the monks left the scene, and the rest were brought out by him from Chongren Temple and some Buddhist temples with which he had a good relationship.

"Zhan Master Fa Ya, what else should we do?"

asked an old monk.

"Of course we have to continue to wait. The poor monk won't believe it. Li Yi'an will be helpless!"

Fa Ya said with certainty: "As long as we make things big, His Majesty will not ignore it."

In short, just continue to make trouble and make them all regret it.

Soon it was night, and the city gate of Wannian County was also closed. The believers who were encouraged to come here finally had an epiphany, and a large number left before closing the city gate.

They come here by belief, and they don't have money, who would stick to it, not only wasting time, but also thirsty and hungry.

"You guys, don't go!"

Falla felt more and more difficult, but failed to persuade those people to come down.

"What's the smell, it smells so good!"

Among those believers, someone exclaimed.

The next moment, everyone could smell it, and a faint fragrance wafted out.

Meaty, definitely meaty.

Even if a monk eats fast and recites the Buddha's name, if he smells the smell of meat at this moment, he has no resistance at all.

Soon they found the source of the fragrance, which was coming from Li Yi'an's yard.