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Chapter 533 Hell is set up for people

The end of the year is approaching and the New Year is getting closer. Every household is preparing for New Year's goods and preparing for a good New Year. Yecheng is full of joy, but for the Queen Yuchi Chifan, the atmosphere is a bit wrong.

At this moment, she was sitting near the window in the hall, staring blankly. It was sunny today, but she was in a bad mood and frowned.

A few days ago, the Grand Historian Fu Yi submitted a memorial to the emperor to abolish Buddhism, that is, "stop Buddha".

Yuchi Chifan is a Buddhist believer. Of course, he does not want the destruction of Buddhism to happen again during the Jiande period, but she also knows that once the worship of Buddhism becomes a sycophant, it will have a bad impact on the country.

However, there is no atmosphere of Buddhist sarcasm all over the country. The court strictly controls the number of temples and monks in various places. Without the permission of the government, not only are new temples not allowed, but even new temples are expanded or new Buddha statues are not allowed.

At the same time, when the people become monks, they must have permission from the government to be ordained. After becoming a monk, they must hold a certificate of sacrificial decree before they become monks. If the temple accommodates monks without certificates, once they are verified, the temple will be severely punished.

In addition, the government restricted the number of fields and industries in the temple. If the fields exceed the restrictions, they had to pay rent and transfer households. Tenants who cultivated fields for the temple also had to bear the rent and transfer from the court.

It can be said that since the first year of Mingde, the court has strengthened management and restrictions on Buddhist temples. Although it has not prohibited the people from believing in Buddhism and has not forced monks to return to secular life, the "restriction of Buddhas" policy that has lasted for nearly twenty years has made many temples unable to support too many monks.

Therefore, today, not only is the number and scale of Buddhist temples limited, but many monks have returned to secular life. The so-called "single Buddha" is not a fact at all.

In this case, someone suddenly jumped out and asked the emperor to think about the country and the country and do the "stop Buddha", which made Yuchi Chifan feel a little unreasonable.

If she could, she really wanted to ask Taishi Cheng Fu Yi in person, where is the situation of singular Buddhism today, what happened to believe in Buddhism, and how could it harm the country and the people?

But this doesn't work because she is not eloquent. If she ends up with a poor word, she will only make a laugh.

There is indeed such a risk, because just yesterday, Xiao Yu, a devout Buddhist monk, broke out with Fu Yi, and fought over and over again, and almost turned into a conflict.

Fu Yi claimed that Buddhism from the Western Regions was not divided into monarch, minister, father and son, and also used the six realms of reincarnation to intimidate ignorant people and defraud money. He also claimed to pursue the sins of previous lives and seek blessings in the next life. So that some people who were in jail still recited Buddha in prison to seek exemption from crimes, which is ridiculous.

Fu Yi also said that since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, China has never had Buddhism. The king is wise and the ministers are loyal, so the age of life is long.

Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains in the former Han Dynasty, and temples began to exist until the reign of Emperor Ming of the Later Han Dynasty. However, the court at that time strictly prohibited the people from being ordained, and only foreign monks from the Western Regions were allowed to explain Buddhism.

It was not until the Yongjia Rebellion that the Central Plains were in chaos, the rulers were mediocre and the political abuse was short, and Buddhism flourished.

Just as a person who is weak will be invaded by external poisons, Buddhism is "taking advantage of the situation".

If you fall into the water and catch a cold, people with strong bodies will only cough a few times, while people with weak bodies will get lung disease and die without cure.

Fu Yi believes that the reason why Buddhism flourished was because the Central Plains was in a chaotic world and no court could restrict it anymore, so they had the opportunity to confuse people's hearts.

The monarchs who believed in Buddhism very much, such as Emperor Wu of Liang (Xiao Yan) and Emperor Xiang of Qi (Gao Cheng), believed in Buddhism in particular, but ended up with a good ending, so the emperor should take it as a warning.

If all the people in the world think of becoming monks and nuns, and chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha all day long, how can the country not perish?

Xiao Yu refuted this fiercely, but after refuting it for a long time, he could not refute the other party, so he was so angry that he cursed: "It is the one that is set in hell!"

This sentence means "The reason why there is hell in the world is for people like you!"

In fact, it is just cursing the other party to go to hell after death.

Being able to say such words shows how angry Xiao Yu was at that time, but he could not defeat the other party in the debate, so he could only speak harshly, which was actually a bit out of order.

However, Yuchi Chifan felt that Xiao Yu's words were well said and relieved, but it was useless to rely on curses alone, and things were not that simple.

There is no wind and waves. Fu Yi, the former unknown Taishi Cheng, suddenly jumped out and asked to stop the Buddha. He must have figured out the best intentions, so he was willing to be a pawn in front of the horse.

So the key to the problem lies in Yuwen Wen, which is Yuwen Wen who is starting to "make trouble" again.

Not long ago, the historian compiled the "Book of Liang", "Book of Chen" and "Book of Northern Qi" and submitted the first draft to the emperor for reading. After Yuwen Wen read it, he suddenly felt a sense of emotion and sighed to different officials on different occasions, saying why Emperor Wu of Liang admired Buddhism so much but ended up like this.

The emperor questioned that Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan had no good ending. The implication was that he was quite dissatisfied with Buddhism. As the saying goes, "If the superiors like each other, the subordinates will have much more." Yuchi Chifan knew that the Grand Historian Fu Yi would not be the only one who jumped out and asked the imperial court to abolish the Buddha.

Yuchi Chifan has been with Yuwen Wen for more than 30 years. Of course, he knows that this person does not believe in Buddhism and even has some negative views on Buddhism. So when he talks about Buddhism on weekdays, he often tells frivolous jokes.

What is "one word is a monk, two words are monks, three words are ghost music officials, four words are hungry ghosts in color", and often jokes that the reason why some temples can make female believers pray for children is nothing more than the monks who personally give alms in their body.

Although some scums do corrupt the reputation of Buddhism, Yuchi Chifan thinks this is a very unique phenomenon. Just as it is impossible to say that someone in Huangzhou commits crimes, he calls everyone in Huangzhou a scumbag. How can a few scums do bad things? How can Buddhism harm the country and the people?

However, she could not convince Yuwen Wen. Now that Yuwen Wen became hostile to Buddhism, no one could stop him from doing something to destroy Buddhism.

Yuchi Chifan believed in Buddhism, so he was afraid that his husband would offend the Buddha and lead to an accident. She had heard rumors before that Emperor Wu (Emperor Wu of Zhou Yuwen Yong) died young because of the destruction of the Buddha.

Therefore, rumors say that Emperor Wu went to hell after his death and atone for his sins for what he did during his lifetime.

She didn't want Yuwen Wen to have an accident, nor did she want Yuwen Wen to go to hell after his death, so she didn't want the destruction of Buddha to happen again, but she knew that she could not convince her husband.

While he was struggling, a figure "floating" in silently like a ghost. The reason why he said "floating" was because the person's feet were obviously not moving, but his body could move.

Such a strange scene made Yuchi Chifan's head blank.

When I looked closely, it was Yuwen Wen who came. Because he was wearing well-made pulley shoes, he could "float in" silently.

Yuchi Chifan, who thought he was so scared that he was about to stop beating, was so angry that he saw a small figure following him. After a closer look, it was Sun Zi Yuwen Xu.

It turned out that Yuwen Wen took his grandson to play roller skating. The grandson was having fun and she "slid" into the hall from outside. Yuchi Chifan was so angry that he saw his grandson's excitement.

Yuwen Wen believes that children should have a happy childhood, so his sons all have a happy childhood. Now it is the grandson's turn, so it should be happy too.

So Yu Wenxu was very skilled in playing with pulley shoes, and followed his grandfather around the hall, his movements were flexible, like a little bird happily shuttled through the forest.

The two of them greeted Yuchi Chifan and quickly "slid" out of the hall. Even the threshold could not slow down the speed of their movement.

When Yuchi Chifan saw Yuwen Wen leaving, his eyes suddenly became a little wet.

She didn't want Yuwen Wen to offend the Buddha, so she died young.
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