Traveling through the divine eagle: the first sword of Quanzhen

Chapter 694 Climbing the mountain
Duan Yunxian had already led people to Hanzhong Tianshi Mansion before, and wiped out those rebels who belonged to Tianshi Dao.And the local officials and soldiers under Zhuge Qingyun also began to suppress the temple on the basis of crimes.It's just that it hasn't fully started yet.Just wait until the "bad handsome" operation is over, and start to collect the net.

But right now, there is only one place left in Duan Yunxian's blacklist, and that is "Shaolin Temple".

After all, Shaolin Temple is known as the "Taishan Beidou" of martial arts, and this name is not exaggerated.

There are hundreds of temples, large and small, on Mount Song, all of which belong to the Shaolin Temple.

According to Zhuge Qingyun's investigation, the Shaolin Temple has more than 4000 mu of land, and the temple base alone is 540 mu.There are more than [-] towers, halls and pavilions.

Not counting the vassal temples, there are thousands of monks under the Shaolin sect alone.Among them, there are more than [-] monks with high martial arts skills.Among them, there are countless lay disciples who are not on the list.

As for other information, it is very difficult for outsiders to enter Shaolin, so Zhuge Qingyun couldn't find out much.

Just these two thousand monks are enough to look down on the rivers and lakes.

After reading it, Li Qingwei also somewhat understood why Shaolin Temple would oppose his new law. After all, his "splits into acres" were taxed according to the amount of land. to the people.

This is simply unacceptable in front of a martial art like Shaolin.

"Begging for money" with monks, is there still a king's law?

Perhaps in previous eras, there were none.

But in the newly born Tang Dynasty, Li Qingwei is Wang Fa, he is the emperor, and all people in the world must obey his will, not even the Shaolin Temple, the "Taishan Beidou".

What's more, his people are starving and have no land or property, while those monks who are "outside the world" are "full of food".This is nothing short of a joke.

And Li Qingwei didn't understand one thing until now.

That is, monks in this era do not seem to be completely forbidden to eat meat.They can drink and eat meat.

Although the custom of banning meat and meat has been handed down from monks since Emperor Wu of Liang in the Southern Dynasty, it is only moral and not legally bound.

When he went to Shaolin Temple before, the abbot served vegetarian food, and he thought that monks in this era were also vegetarian.

He didn't realize it until Zhuge Qingyun's memorial said that a certain temple eats xx catties of meat every month.

It seems that from the perspective of the law, monks are prohibited from drinking, eating meat, and marrying wives. It seems that it was only implemented when Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor.

Thinking about it now, Li Qingwei felt that these monks were quite "hypocritical".

He is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but secretly engages in drinking and eating meat, and finally refuses to admit it after indulging his appetite.You also have to be shameless and deceive yourself by saying, "Wine and meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha will keep it in his heart."

In Li Qingwei's understanding of the Three Views, this can be described as quite shameless.

Since you want to be a family member, do it to the end, and abide by the rules and regulations honestly.After all, the imperial court does not collect taxes from monks, nor does it allow them to perform corvee and military service.

Now that they have enjoyed this privilege, they will be honest and upright.

If you can't bear the hardship, then come back to him and be a layman, and let him honestly go to the important land, guard the border, and build the Great Wall.Do something for the country.

It also saves them a bunch of 'parasites' who don't do anything all day long.

And Li Qingwei wanted to stop this unhealthy trend since ancient times.It would be good if they cooperate honestly, but if they don't cooperate, then they can only be sent to confess.

After entrusting the emperor's daily government affairs to Zhao Ke, Li Qingwei took the Longquan Sword and set off.

Compared with the dragon robe, he prefers this suit now.

After all, this set of night clothes is very free, not as restrictive as a dragon robe.

Soon Li Qingwei rushed to the foot of Songshan Mountain.

It's just that the current Shaolin Temple has already closed its gates, and no visitors are seen.

Because the news of the extermination of other sects has already spread here.The old monks in the temple also knew that the matter had been revealed.

Now Shaolin Temple has also shrunk its "strength", and recruited all the monks and monks back to "protect the temple" to protect their "three treasures".

Although Shaolin Temple also sent many monks to make peace with the Tang court, Song Ci was not in the mood to listen to what they had to say.Song Ci only wanted to thoroughly implement the new law that benefited the country and the people.

As long as the people in the world have enough food and clothing, he doesn't care even if he gets the infamy of a "cruel official and eagle dog".

As the inheritor of Legalism, Song Ci also dislikes these parasites who do not pay taxes to the country and serve in corvee.

Song Ci directly wrote this matter as a memorial and reported it to the emperor Li Qingwei, asking "Your Majesty to order".

But Li Qingwei's reply was just one sentence: "Leave it alone."

To put it simply, Song Ci naturally didn't care about this matter, every time Shaolin Temple sent people to contact the imperial court, they would report to Yushitai, the main person in charge of the new law.

But the Yushitai under the control of Song Ci, without exception, sent them all back.Don't even look at it.

I don't know how these monks found a way to pass the proposal to the cabinet of Zhuge Qingyun's prime minister's mansion.

Song Ci was not used to them, let alone Zhuge Qingyun who had no affection for monks.It is also returned directly in situ.

Shaolin Temple wanted to find Guo Jing and Guo Daxia's Jianghu relationship.So I found the Beggars' Gang and asked them to give Huang Rong a message.

But "Bad Handsome" has warned Huang Rong before, Huang Rong is a selfish person, as long as the beggar gang entrusted to her by the master is fine, her husband and children are fine, and the "flood is raging" outside, what does it matter to her?

If it weren't for Guo Jing's stubbornness, she would marry and support her husband.She must have taken Guo Jing to live in seclusion on Peach Blossom Island, and she didn't want to care about the Song-Mongolian dispute.

And "Bad Handsome" also warned her, out of prudence to protect herself, Huang Rong would naturally take care of it.

Shaolin hit a wall everywhere, there was no way but to recall the monks, first protect the temple, and finally adapt to the situation.

But today their bad luck is coming.

Li Qingwei had already appeared in front of the mountain gate of Shaolin Temple with the Longquan sword on his back.

The monk guarding the mountain said at this time: "Who is your Excellency? Now the monastery is closed to the mountain, if you want to burn incense, please go elsewhere."

Li Qingwei laughed in an old voice: "Burning incense? I'm not interested! Tell your abbot to come out and see me!"

Hearing that the visitor was not good, the monk immediately blew his whistle, and then forty or fifty monks surrounded him from all directions.

Their old sticks have changed from wooden to cast iron.

And their monk robes and cassocks have also been replaced with armor.

Seeing their appearance, Li Qingwei sneered at this moment, and said in an old voice: "Secretizing armor is against the laws of my Tang Dynasty, do you want to rebel?"

(End of this chapter)