Xiao Ying understood Yang Ji's dirty words, "I have no choice but to work hard tonight to donate money to the people." She rolled her eyes at him and said coquettishly, "You are not serious when you say that."

Yang Ji was full of a soft smile, but he deliberately said seriously: "My wife has done a great job, but you are not my subordinate, so you will definitely not be rewarded in public. And we are a couple, if there is an additional reward,

, that’s too outrageous, so I have no choice but to reward you with a child.”

"I won't listen to you, you are so glib." Xiao Ying blushed with embarrassment, but there was a strong sense of expectation in her heart. For her, the most important thing in this life is to have a beloved man.

She gave birth to children for this beloved man. Now that she has a beloved man, if she gives birth to another child for him, then she will have no regrets in her life.

Yang Ji laughed, skipped the topic, and said back to the subject: "You just said you have several ideas, and war and blackmailing the grassland ministries is just one of them, what else is there next?"

"I know that there is a place that is quite rich and has quite a lot of food. If Langjun takes it for national use, Liangzhou's food difficulties will disappear without warning." Xiao Ying's eyes sparkled, and her expression was exactly the same as that of her mother, Dugu Min, as if she was a girl.

A cunning and shrewd little fox.

Yang Ji frowned and asked, "Is the place powerful?"

Although there are not many powerful families in Liangzhou, there are many powerful people in the area known as the county leader. For example, Guazhou has six surnames: Zhang, Suo, Si, Yin, Song, and Linghu. For example, Guazhou Dunhuang Gao,

Although the influence of these six major families, including Chen and Yuwen, is limited to the state, they are all powerful local tycoons.

These families had flocks of cattle and sheep, over 10,000 war horses, and numerous servants. They owned a large number of pastures and shepherds, and indirectly also a large number of troops. They were simply the emperors of the country in Guazhou.

If Yang Ji kills them, he can indeed get a lot of money, land, population, and livestock to meet Liangzhou's food shortage needs. However, these big families in places far away from the emperor, the court has always used both kindness and power, so even if these families are in

The Sui Dynasty also belonged to the upper class and enjoyed a certain political status. Moreover, when various previous policies were implemented, these people were indeed relatively cooperative. How could he go to these more popular families for no reason?

Of course, these families have been kings and hegemons in the local area for countless years. It would be easy for Yang Ji to catch evidence of their crimes. But the problem is that Liangzhou cannot withstand the trouble at this stage. If the old order is completely destroyed now

, defeated, he simply did not have the energy to cope with the pressure from the court, local powerful, foreign enemies, and people's livelihood.

"It's not a local tycoon!" Xiao Ying bit her lip, her eyes drooped slightly, and she seemed to be hesitant.

"What is that?" Yang Ji was very curious and asked with a smile: "Except for the local tycoons in Liangzhou, I really can't think of anyone who is so rich, so don't show off."

"I remember that there are many Buddhist temples in Liangzhou." Xiao Ying said softly: "These Buddhist temples have been making money in the name of Buddha for hundreds of years, and all of them are extremely rich. For these Buddhist temples that occupy a large amount of fertile land and have a huge amount of money,

Monasteries, Buddhists, even aristocratic families, local powerful people dare not reach out, because everyone is afraid of retribution. Moreover, aristocratic families donate a large amount of money, food, and land every year in order to have peace of mind. As for ordinary people, only

Before entering the temple, the monk in the temple told him and his family how bad and dangerous he and his family were. Then he changed the subject and said that as long as he worshiped a certain Buddha for a long time, he would be able to change his destiny.

, there will be a disaster of blood and light... Some people firmly believe in what the Buddhists say, and then hand over all their belongings; those who do not believe have passed the test in their hearts, so they obediently hand over countless money.

"

"In the prosperous times, Buddhism tried its best to make money under the guise of transcending the secular world; in troubled times, it used the theory of retribution to scare people, so that even local rebels did not dare to touch them. In addition, they also used the idea of ​​reincarnation to deceive the people.

Money, some

Because the Buddhists were bewitched by the Buddhists and donated all their labor income to the so-called Buddha, they themselves suffered from hunger and cold, and their families were ruined. However, at this time, there was never a Buddha or a monk to save them."

Xiao Ying focused her eyes on her husband's face and said in a faint tone: "Our family was quite wealthy in the Sui Dynasty, very rich and wealthy, but we are not the same as the White Horse Temple and Daxingshan Temple with their long history.

Compared with Jingju Temple and other temples, they are at most half as popular."

"..." Yang Ji was stunned when he heard this. He originally thought that his family's wealth had reached the top of the Sui Dynasty, but when he heard Xiao Ying say this, he realized that there is a world outside the world, and there are people outside the world. And he, the prince, the son of the richest woman,

He is not as good as the heir of a sect. It is true that poverty has limited his imagination.

But Yang Ji had no doubts about Xiao Ying's words of boosting other people's ambitions and destroying his own prestige.

For example, the Daxingshan Temple in the capital was built in the second year of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. When Daxing City was built, the temple also took the opportunity to expand, occupying the entire Jingshanfang; while the slightly inferior Qinglong Temple and Longhuani Temple

, Bingming Temple, Chongsheng Temple, Chongji Temple, and Dayunjing Temple each occupy half a square, and they are all located in the north of Daxing City. The value of the land alone is an astonishing figure.

The pomp of these temples is bigger than the last, and the decoration is more luxurious than the last. The main halls of these top-ranked temples are extremely luxurious, with so much gold and jade jewelry and exquisite carving craftsmanship that they are even far away from the three main halls of Daxing Palace.

Far worse.

During the Han Dynasty, Buddhism was not introduced for a long time and spread in limited areas, so there were relatively few Buddhist believers. Later, as a large number of Buddhist scriptures were translated, Buddhism spread more and more widely. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many temples and grottoes were built.

Since then, Buddhism has become the largest religion in the world and has developed many high-ranking and loyal believers, including Xiao Ying's ancestor, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang.

Xiao Yan suffered successive blows in his later years, and he began to become superstitious about Buddhism. Not only did he build nearly a thousand temples in the capital, he also evaded his position as a monk many times. In order to redeem himself from the non-existent "Buddha", Xiao Yan's ministers

The emperor paid a large amount of wealth to the "Buddha Envoy" who acted in the human world on behalf of the "Buddha". As the saying goes, what is good above is effective below, Xiao Yan's actions also made Buddhism extremely prosperous in the Southern Dynasties.

The royal nobles of the Northern Dynasty were even better than those of the Southern Dynasty. The Northern Wei Dynasty often built Buddhist temples and carved Buddhist caves, and required that the level of luxury must exceed that of the Southern Dynasty, in order to show that they believed in Buddhism more than the Southern Dynasty and hoped that "Buddha"

Be more biased towards yourself.

The main reason why Buddhism has achieved such glory is that Buddhist thought caters to the people's thinking of passively escaping from the world in troubled times. Moreover, the emperors of the Northern and Southern Dynasties not only wanted to exploit the people's wealth to support military supplies, but also feared that the people would rebel. This was very necessary.

To make the exploited people submissive, the emperors of the two dynasties unanimously chose Buddhism, which was good at confusing people's hearts and had countless Buddhists.

Of course, the rapid growth of Buddhism is also related to policies, because monks do not have to pay taxes, so the hard-working people who are exploited by heavy taxes and high pressure have fled to Samana. Moreover, in the Sui Dynasty, monks have always been at large, and criminals once committed crimes

For serious crimes, as long as you hide in a temple, you will not be punished by law. This is what is called laying down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha immediately.

When Buddhists face law enforcement officials who come to visit them, they often insist very arrogantly that as long as they commit crimes and become a monk, they are Buddhists, and secular laws have no effect on them. In this way, Buddhism in this era has become a person with a high status and aloofness.

A lawless land. They control a large number of people and land but never have to pay taxes. Moreover, they accept offerings from believers all over the world every day and devour a large amount of people's hard-earned money.

Believers who became paupers because of their offerings to Buddha also became factors of social unrest, putting great pressure on the court's security. The crazy expansion of Buddhism became one of the most unstable factors in society during the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

,also

Finally, Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, Yu Wenyong, who was also a Buddhist believer, was annoyed, and prompted him to issue an edict in the third year of Jiande: "Buddhism and Taoism are eliminated, all scriptures and statues are destroyed, the monks and Taoist priests are dismissed, and they are ordered to return to the people. All obscene sacrifices are prohibited.

, anything that is not included in the ceremony will be eliminated."

It was precisely because of Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, that he successfully exterminated Buddhism that the Northern Zhou Dynasty greatly increased its national power and laid a solid foundation of human, military and financial resources for the Northern Zhou Dynasty to destroy the Northern Qi Dynasty. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, it immediately destroyed the old temples in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Tens of thousands of monks and nuns were forced to return to secular life. This was of great significance to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, which was in urgent need of troops and financial resources.

It is a pity that Yu Wenyong died young and his descendants were mediocre and incompetent. Therefore, all his efforts and achievements were in vain at the expense of the thief "Yang Jie" who stole the country.

Buddhism in the Sui Dynasty was no less impressive than that in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Daxing City alone had nearly a thousand temples. According to statistics from Zongzheng Temple, the total number of monks and nuns from all over the Sui Dynasty grew to about four million.

Its proportion is about one-fourth of the total population. If you include folk believers, it will be even more. With so many people working as free labor in Buddhism for a long time and being supported by so many people, how can it not be rich?

Although the wealth of Buddhism is distributed among various temples, large temples such as Baima Temple and Daxingshan Temple can be regarded as the most powerful families in the Buddhist world. They still have wealth that ordinary people cannot imagine.

Although Liangzhou is poor and barren, there are many monasteries in various places, especially Dunhuang. The number of monasteries is ridiculous. The reason why the people of Liangzhou have become impoverished is because they place their hopes on the ethereal Buddha and give the fruits of their labor one after another

Donating to temples has a great relationship. And temples everywhere are like parasites, devouring the blood of millions of people to strengthen themselves, leading a more superior life than the court and government, but dumping the mummy-like people to

The court and government.

If Yang Ji followed Xiao Ying's suggestion and stabbed the big fat pig called Buddhism, the Liangzhou General Manager's Office would be able to get a windfall out of thin air, and it would be able to get through the difficulties smoothly with almost no help from the court or blackmail from the grassland ministries.

Thinking of this, Yang Ji suddenly thought of another thing and said to Xiao Ying: "The Xiao family seems to believe in Buddhism, but my wife gave me such an idea. Don't you believe in Buddhism?"

"Actually, I believe a little bit. But I believe in Mr. Lang more. As long as everything goes well for Mr. Lang, I will be very satisfied." When Xiao Ying said this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Yang Ji nervously: "If the Buddha descends,

I'll take the blame now."

Yang Ji looked at her pitiful expression and couldn't help but feel a little funny, but at the same time he was deeply moved.

People these days are limited by knowledge and blame all the mysteries in nature on the heads of gods and ghosts. Everyone believes in the theory of gods and ghosts. Once a person becomes superstitious about religion, he will become extremely persistent.

To eradicate his beliefs and superstitions, it is no less difficult than killing him. But Xiao Ying cannot

But she comes from a family that believes in Buddhism, and she herself believes in Buddhism. However, when she encounters difficulties, she teaches herself to deal with the sect she believes in. If she didn't care about herself, how would she tell this method? If it wasn't true,

If you believe in Buddhism, how can you become so worried about gains and losses and feel uneasy after telling you this method?

Yang Ji felt a burst of tenderness in his heart, and comforted him: "Silly girl, most monks and nuns are liars, and they have committed crimes that have escaped the law. If the government eradicates these scum, it will also safeguard the reputation of the gods and Buddhas. And you are upholding justice and making this suggestion.

For the sake of the gods and Buddhas, if it is too late for the gods and Buddhas to reward you in the future, how can they punish you?"

Xiao Ying looked at Yang Ji and asked as if asking for help: "Isn't it really weird?"

"Of course it's true." Yang Ji believed a little in the ethereal gods and ghosts for his own reasons, but among the millions of monks and nuns living in the Sui Dynasty, absolutely no one he believed in.

"That's good!" Xiao Ying actually knew that most of the monks and nuns were fake, but she couldn't resist her own inner demons. When her husband said this, her anxious heart suddenly calmed down, and she thought to herself: "I teach Mr.

Destroying false Buddhas and helping the world is in line with the idea of ​​gods and Buddhas saving all sentient beings, so how could gods and Buddhas blame me and Mr. Lang?"

The couple chatted for a while, and then Yang Ji separated from his beloved wife. He walked to the study, and then asked people to call Song Zhengben, Hao Yuan, Wei Zheng, Ling Jing, Xue Ju, and Yuchi Gong to discuss the matter.

The idea of ​​war blackmail between the Eastern Turks/Northern and Southern Turks is good, but the army going north has to cross the territories of the Great Lakes Region, the Eastern Turks, and so before taking action, we must consider the various tribes in the Great Lakes Region, the Eastern Turks, and Xueyantuo

Will they attack this lone army?

Although Yang Ji believed that the possibility of a war breaking out was unlikely, he did not dare to be blindly optimistic because it was related to the life and death of a large army.

As for the idea of ​​destroying false Buddhism and helping the world, there is nothing to hesitate, because Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Tao and Emperor Wu of Zhou Dynasty Yuwen Yong have used practical actions to prove that it is a move that benefits the country and the people. However, this action not only touched the hearts of Buddhists

Benefit

, it is also related to the faith of the majority of Buddhists; if it is not considered carefully and handled carelessly, a war between theocracy and legal principles may break out, and the terror of the believer army has also been proven by Zhang Jiao and Hong Xiuquan, so this idea is also

Don't be careless.

Moreover, as Yang Ji is the leader of Liangzhou, every decision he makes is closely related to millions of people. If he is too arbitrary, even if he does not make a mistake, it will take away the opportunity for his subordinates to display their talents and dampen everyone's enthusiasm for doing things.

and enthusiasm. As a superior, the only way to defeat the enemy and benefit yourself and others is to gather the wisdom of everyone for your own use.

.............

Yang Ji's personal staff all lived in the Yang Mansion. Upon hearing Yang Ji's call, the six of them quickly came to the study together and saluted Yang Ji together: "See you, Master!"

"Sit down!" Yang Ji and six other close associates took their seats, and then told Liangzhou's food shortage problem, Xiao Ying's war blackmail, and the solution to destroy false Buddhism and help the world, and finally said: "What do you think?
To be continued...