Yuwen Wen disagreed when he heard that his subordinates were worried about causing trouble. Anyway, the situation in Huaixi is now in chaos, and it doesn’t matter if it is a little more chaotic. Only after the chaos will it be the major rule, so we must take advantage of the chaos and take advantage of the chaos and catch fish as soon as possible.

After some explanation, his subordinates took a leave, and Yuwen Wen sat alone in meditation.

The fortress has been "emptying the cage to replace birds" by him, but there are still many "old birds" in the cage that have to be cleared, but Yuwen Wen does not intend to put the "new birds" in.

Because his target this time was a Buddhist temple.

Yuwen Wen did not believe in Buddhism or Taoism, but he was not tired of Buddhism or Taoism. After all, all sentient beings in the secular world always need to find spiritual sustenance. As long as the monks in the temple and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple do serious things, he will not bother to care.

But today, worshipping Buddhism in various places has become close to Buddhists. Temples of all sizes have become so-called tools for monks to make money and have become cancers of the country.

It is said that "ancient" was a small peasant economy and a pastoral economy. However, in this era, there was also an important economy, that is, temple economy. In addition to chanting scriptures, monks in temples in various places also do business.

When doing business, you never make money quickly without lending, so there is "monk's residence millet" in the Northern Dynasties temples, and "quarantine warehouses" in the Southern Dynasties temples. Monk's residence millet is lending, and quality warehouses are the prototype of pawn shops.

The original intention of the temple lending is to provide relief to the people, to provide emergency services, and to make profits to subsidize temple expenses. It was a good thing, but it gradually changed and became the most powerful tool for temple expansion.

When lending, we are naturally loaned out, with a high interest rate (to the east and west), and the interest rate is also very high. Many temples in all over the world rely on this kind of livelihood to turn a large number of people into dependent people of the temple, that is, they form tenants and slaves who are dependent on their own.

The people who were originally self-cultivated farmers all turned into temple land and were not within the scope of taxation by the government.

As a result, the number of households in the imperial court registered significantly, further led to a sharp reduction in tax revenue, resulting in a financial crisis, and even unable to recruit troops in war.

Not only that, temples in various places cast a large amount of Buddha statues, which consumes a lot of copper, resulting in even more copper shortage on the market. In addition, more and more people melt the copper coins cast by the imperial court and cut them away, which will also seriously affect the national finance.

The number of households dependent on the temples in a country reaches half of the number of households registered by the imperial court. What a spectacular scene?

So nearly twenty years ago, Emperor Wu of Zhou destroyed Buddhism, and now, Yuwen Wen also wants to destroy Buddhism.

The people he sent out to do detailed investigations. In the Huaixi land, there were many temples, occupying a large number of farmland, and many dependent people who were not under the jurisdiction of the government. Many temples placed usury to exploit the people, and competed with the fortress tyrants for the self-cultivated farmers.

Therefore, since Yuwen Wen wanted to eradicate the old fortress tyrants, he had to deal with these monks who were loaned to usury. His method was to send people to pretend to be thieves and attack the mountains and destroy the temples.

Such things must be done by others, and soldiers must not be sent, because in the social environment where most people worship Buddha, if Yuwen Wen becomes the vanguard of destroying Buddha, he will not be betrayal of his relatives, but troubles will come one after another, and the court will also be attracted by it.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to take advantage of the chaos in Huaixi. Although the rich temples have temple protection armed forces, they are not worth mentioning in front of Yuwen Wen's minions.

Yuwen Wen will not make things difficult for temples that sincerely worship Buddha and do not lend usury; he will not make things difficult for monks who are respected. Those flower monks who exploit the people and spend all day long, will not leave any of them.

For temples burned by the 'treacherous', the local governments who were "short of money" would not be rebuilt. Those dependent people and temple land would be re-organized under the government. Even if the contract of selling the body was not burned, they would not count them.

Is it a joy to see what happened?

No, there is no need to be a slave to the temple, those dependents will not cry out for joy, and will most likely be filled with sadness.

Why?

It's very simple, harsh policies are more powerful than tigers.

After careful investigation, the people sent by Yuwen Wen got a conclusion that made Yuwen Wen feel mixed: rather than being good people for the government, those dependent people are more willing to be monks and powerful people.

Whether the wife and daughter are sleeping, or their sons are slaves for life, the family can survive. But if they are good people for the government, not to mention heavy rents or tutors, they can even commit labor and military service, which can destroy their family.

It would be a good fortune for an untrained civilian to serve in the military and take a spear to the battlefield. A civilian in Guangzhou was recruited by the government and worked hard. He went to the Yellow River in Yingzhou hundreds of miles away to build a river embankment. He would take care of himself. He would be able to serve this kind of labor once, and he would return to poverty and lose his family.

Because the harsh government is more powerful than the tiger, the people would rather borrow usury and become creditors than be good people in the government than to borrow usury. They would not even wait to borrow usury and directly contribute land to the powerful and powerful, and temples to seek protection, avoid labor and military service.

So, Yuwen Wen sent people to eradicate the temples this time, should he save those dependents from the fire or push them into a larger fire pit?

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In Woyang, the schoolyard outside the city, crying sounds were heard one after another. Many men were searching for the human skins they had just snatched back, and then hugged the skins of their relatives and cried heartbrokenly.

These human skins are connected to the head, so they can identify their appearance. The very "complete" human skins made the soldiers watching the side feel furious after seeing them.

At this time, the schoolyard was crowded with people. In addition to the victims of "seeking skins and recognizing relatives", there were many generals on the high platform. The leader was the commander of the entire army, and the Minister of Shangshu of the Southeast Daxingtai, Yuchi Youqi.

He looked at the creepy scene below the stage and felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach, but he suppressed the nausea of ​​vomiting and shouted to the soldiers below with a paper loudspeaker: "Did everyone see it? This is the atrocities of the thief, which is outrageous!"

"You can peel it if you kill cattle and sheep. If a thief kills a person, you have to peel it. Even if you peel it in such a complete way, think about it, are you peeling it often on the thief? Are they still human beings?"

"Look, look at these righteous men! Their homes were burned by the thief, and their relatives were kidnapped by the thief, and their lives were worse than death. They were eager to take revenge and ventured back to their hometown to spy on the enemy's situation, but were caught by the thief and skinned alive!"

"What is the consequence of such atrocities? A tiger eats people, while a thief is more powerful than a tiger, and he leads beasts to eat people!!"

The soldiers on the school ground became excited as they listened. Although their cavalry caught the prisoners when they entered the enemy territory and erected the flag, they felt that this was the destiny that the traitor should have. After all, most of the cavalry were children of local powerful men and had deep hatred with the traitors.

Now, the thief is so cruel. He has peeled more human skins to demonstrate. It is simply outrageous and rebellious, even more cruel than a tiger.

Those who were even more excited were the powerful men who cried loudly with their relatives in their arms. They had a great grudge against the Yuwen army and volunteered to attack the enemy soldiers. After being killed, they were even skinned by the other party. Such a deep hatred made their eyes turn blood red.

Many people knelt on the ground and kowtowed, shouting to Yuchi Youqi on the stage: "Caomin and the rebel traitor are irreconcilable. I beg the Minister of State to make decisions for the Caomin and the people of Huaixi, and send troops to destroy the rebel traitors as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry, everyone! The court will not be indifferent. I will definitely send troops to make the decision for the people of Huaixi!"

Yuchi Youqi comforted him and was very excited. Yuwen Wen probably won too many battles and thought that killing could conquer people's hearts. However, he did not know that doing so would make the people's hearts look to the court (Yuchi).

Looking at the excited children of powerful men from all over the country and the ready-to-hand soldiers, Yuchi Youqi knew that the people's hearts were available and the army's hearts were available. Then, when the time was right, he would have to fight the arrogant Yuwen Wen, and he would definitely be able to defeat him in one battle.
Chapter completed!