Chapter 1151: Take the Emperor to Order the Princes
Chapter 1151: Holding the Emperor hostage to order the princes
After Qin Hao issued the order to withdraw his troops, as soon as Tan Daoji received the letter from Fei Ge, the five thousand Buddhist-killing army immediately withdrew overnight.
This operation to exterminate Buddhists lasted for nearly two months. Almost 90% of the Buddhist temples in Sizhou and Jingbei under Qin Hao were destroyed at once.
According to later statistics, a total of more than 140 large and small Buddhist temples were destroyed, and more than 6,000 monks were killed or captured. However, the Qin army only suffered less than a thousand casualties.
This shows that although the forces in the arena are strong, they are still vulnerable to the regular armies of the princes.
In addition, the Qin army also liberated more than 50,000 people, seized a total of 40 million yuan, antiques and treasures worth 20 million yuan, seized nearly 500,000 shi of grain and grass, and seized a large amount of fertile land and real estate.
It has to be said that the Buddhist family is really wealthy. What Qin Hao captured from destroying the Buddha this time, regardless of anything else, is just food and grass, which is enough to support the Qin army in a medium-sized battle.
No wonder the Buddhists are so eager to reconcile. They want to minimize the losses. Otherwise, even if they take the initiative to send "protection money" to the princes, the princes everywhere may not be willing to accept it. After all, they will definitely get it.
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In addition to the loss of money and food, the biggest loss for Buddhism was talents.
As soon as they learned that the Qin army was going to destroy the Buddha, many eminent monks from all over the world gathered in Sijing, hoping to stop the Qin army from destroying the Buddha.
As for the final result, it naturally had no effect. Facing the Qin army's sharp knife formation and crossbow formation, countless eminent monks died under the Qin army's butcher's knife.
These include four grandmasters, three half-step masters, eight first-rate masters, twenty-eight first-rate masters, and over a hundred second-rate masters.
As for the eminent monks who reached the level of half-step grand master, in addition to one being killed by Gao Chong at the beginning, another one appeared later and was also killed by Gao Chong and Pei Yuanqing.
The Half-Step Grand Master is a mainstay for any school, but the Buddhist school has lost two of them at once. This has already damaged their muscles and bones, and they may not be able to recover in another ten years.
In this battle to destroy the Buddha, the endless lineup of Buddhist masters emerged, which also frightened all the disciples.
It turns out that unknowingly, the outside Buddhist school has grown to such a degree that among hundreds of schools of thought, only Taoism can steadily dominate the Buddhist school.
The Buddhist School has naturally aroused the fear of other Baijia forces, but even such a powerful Buddhist school still cannot stop the army of only five thousand princes. This also made the Baijia realize their strengths and weaknesses again.
The advantage of Baijia is that it has most of the talents in the world, and can use its own talents to directly or indirectly influence the princes, or the princes it supports.
But if there is a head-on confrontation with the princes, it will undoubtedly be an egg against a stone. A master who is not at the level of a grand master, no matter how strong he is, cannot withstand the encirclement and killing of the army, but there are only a few grand masters in a hundred families?
After realizing this, the top leaders of various schools of thought all had complicated thoughts. Today's world is no longer the one where they were free to control at will. The princes from all over the world are the real controllers of this world.
The various schools of thought can use the Yellow Turban to destroy the foundation of the Han Dynasty, but they are unable to do anything to the feudal lords who are separatist. It is true that evil people will have their own troubles!
Although Qin Hao's campaign to destroy Buddhism was mainly aimed at Buddhism, it also had the effect of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger, which greatly frightened all the schools of thought.
And this also indirectly caused the Baijia's behavior to suddenly change for a period of time, and it was no longer as domineering as before.
This is an unexpected surprise to all the princes in the world.
The act of destroying the Buddha had many benefits. In addition to frightening hundreds of schools of thought, it also frightened all the sects under the hundreds of schools of thought in the world.
After all, the princes dare to destroy even the Buddhist sect. It is too easy to destroy a sect.
After this battle, all the major sects in Qin Hao's territory acted cautiously for a long time, and did not dare to violate the laws established by the Qin army easily. This also made the public security in Qin Hao's territory difficult.
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April, the second year of Chuping (AD 191).
On the fourth day after Qin Hao returned to Luoyang, surrounded by Qin Hao and many other civil and military ministers, Han Emperor Liu Xie ascended the throne again at the Luoyang Imperial Temple and changed the Yuan Dynasty to Jian'an.
Since then, driven by the butterfly Qin Hao, 191 AD has become the first year of Jian'an, which is a full five years earlier than the first year of Jian'an in 196 AD in the original history.
From the time in February when Liu Yu succeeded Yizhou Mu and joined forces with Liu Ji to resist Chi You's invasion, to now in April when Liu Xie ascended the throne again in Luoyang, too many major events happened in these short two months.
First, the Thirteen-stick Monk rescued Li Shimin, but Sakyamuni broke the rules and took action, which resulted in Qin Hao's large-scale extermination of Buddhism.
Later, Su Lie defeated Wang Mang, forcing Wang Mang to retreat to Hanoi. He tried every means to strengthen his power, and finally even held a martial arts conference.
In order to avoid the pressure from hundreds of families, Qin Hao led the Seven Swords to chase Li Shimin to Tongfu Inn in Qixia Town. After the Seven Swords combined to kill the great master Dugu Yuyun, he reached a cooperation with Li Shimin to deal with Yang Jian.
It was also after the cooperation with Li Shimin that Zhou Yu and Li Cunxiao attacked Hangu Pass in a surprise attack, blocking a large number of food routes in Yanglin in Yewang City, and attracted Yang Guang and Yang Jian's 70,000 troops to attack.
After letting Li Shimin go, Qin Hao personally went to the Wulin army with the intention of killing Wang Mang, but unexpectedly foiled Yuan Meng's plot, and issued a warning to the Northern Jin army in advance, so that the Jin army could prepare for Murong Ke's attack.
And Bingbei also started a war between Jin and Yuan Dynasty.
In the end, Qin Hao personally led people to destroy the base of Xuanjing Division, captured Princess Zhao Min of Yuanmeng alive, and led everyone to break out of the siege and return to Luoyang under the heavy siege of Wang Mang's army.
In just two months, Qin Hao traveled to almost half of Sizhou and experienced a series of thrilling events. Now he finally returned to Luoyang to support the emperor and ascend the throne, thus starting the path of coercing the emperor to control the princes.
Since Liu Xie escaped from Chang'an alone with the help of Jia Xu, and there were no other Han ministers around him to help him, after he regained the throne, with all the civil and military officials in the dynasty being Qin officials, Qin Hao naturally became
He was the only person Liu Xie could rely on.
The first thing Liu Xie did after he regained the throne was to enfeoff all ministers. Of course, the prerequisite must be Qin Hao's approval.
In this canonization, all the civil and military officials loyal to Qin Hao were promoted, and the cohesion of his subordinates was greatly improved.
As for Qin Hao himself, Liu Xie originally wanted to make Qin Hao a general and king of Qin, but Qin Hao actively refused the title on the grounds of "lack of qualifications" and ultimately only accepted the title of a lower-level hussar general and Duke of Qin.
Position, fiefdom in Nanyang County.
Qin Hao's father Qin Wen, who was far away in Jinyang, was named a general and king of Jin by Liu Xie, and was granted the title of Taiyuan County.
Except for Qin Hao and Qin Wen, the other princes have not yet been canonized. After all, the other princes have neither sent envoys to Luoyang for pilgrimage, nor have they recognized the orthodox status of Liu Xie's Han Dynasty.
Today's Sizhou is still in war, and when Qin Hao unifies Sizhou and unifies the forces of the Qin and Jin armies, his overall strength will naturally become the overlord of the princes.
At that time, the princes from all over the country were frightened by Qin Hao's huge military power and could only send troops to Luoyang to recognize Liu Xie's orthodox status. In this way, Qin Hao's plan of coercing the emperor to control the princes could naturally be carried out smoothly.
Therefore, the canonization of other princes can only be carried out after Qin Hao unified Sizhou.