Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

"what's the situation?"

Li You asked with some puzzlement.

Mou Bin said in a low voice: "Now Your Majesty is practicing Taoism like the Supreme Emperor, and most of the clan ministers also have the same opinion."

"Previously the emperor's act of exterminating Buddha was stopped by Prince Yin, but this time I don't think anyone can stop them."

"These monks presumably felt a crisis before they made such a move."

Li You nodded, this matter seemed a little difficult to him.

The unfriendliness of the Li Tang royal family to Buddhism stems from many aspects, not only belief, but also land and population.

First of all, during the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Buddhism occupied a large amount of land resources because of its beliefs, and there were also a lot of farmers attached to temples.

Because Buddhism once sent monks and soldiers to help Li Tang's army, Datang exempted monasteries from taxation at the beginning of the founding of the country.

This makes it so that if Buddhism is allowed to develop, sooner or later, the entire country will be hollowed out.

Secondly, Buddhism requires abstinence, abandoning the family and children, and not being able to have children.

This is even more abhorrent to the imperial court that is waiting for prosperity.

After the war, what Datang needs is to speed up the recuperation and quickly restore the previous population.

But the prosperity of Buddhism has greatly delayed this process.

Finally, Buddhism came from the Western Regions, which is an ideological conflict.

In the view of Confucianists, Buddhism came from Yidi, and those who are not of our race must have different minds.

Buddhism opposes Confucianism, does not know filial piety, pays attention to the equality of all beings, and refuses to obey the monarch. This is a huge ideological conflict.

So after Li Tang found Lao Tzu, the "old ancestor", it was inevitable to suppress Buddhism.

And now there is such a bold madman who is trying to harm the prince and shake the foundation of the country, Li Shenfu will never let this opportunity pass by.

Li You's thinking was right at all. During this period of time, Li's talisman entered the palace frequently, just to explain to Li Shimin the benefits of exterminating the Buddha.

Not only can a large amount of land, property, and population occupied by Buddhism be regained, but it can also increase future taxes.

Li Shenfu even used the example of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty to persuade Li Shimin.

After the Northern Qi was eliminated in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the population of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was about 3000 million, and there were about 300 million Buddhists.

Emperor Wu of Zhou launched the largest Buddhist extermination operation in history.

The economic resources of Buddhism were all confiscated, and all 300 million monks returned to secular life, in exchange for a rich country and a strong army.

Although the strength of Buddhism is not as good as it was at the peak of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there are still millions of monks.

There is still a lot of wealth accumulated in the temples.

If these wealth and population returned to the imperial court, let alone attacking Jieli Khan, even sweeping the entire Turkic grassland, there would be no problem with supplies.

Hearing this, and thinking of the upcoming Turkic War in Datang, Li Shimin acted.

He asked Li Shenfu to draw up a charter immediately, and then borrowed this matter, and then went to court to discuss it.

At this moment, Li You in the palace didn't know the agreement between Li Shenfu and Li Shimin, but he also vaguely felt that this matter was not good.

Although Li You didn't have a good impression of these Buddhist people, he didn't want this incident to be caused by him, and then continued to magnify it for no reason.

He stood up and said, "Mu Bin, go and make arrangements, I'm going to meet this Daoqiu."

With Mu Bin Jinyiwei's work efficiency, Li You saw Daoqiu in the morning after three days.

The reason, of course, was that Li You didn't want to see Li Shenfu.

Today Jin Yiwei found out that Li Shenfu had gone to see Li Shimin again, so he immediately notified Li You.

When Li You saw Daoqiu, even though he had seen many bloody scenes in his medical practice for many years, he couldn't bear to look directly at him.

Daoqiu could hardly find a piece of complete skin on his body.

"Can you still hear me?"

Li You asked.

Dao Qiu's eyes were full of doubts, but he still nodded.

"Do you know that Dazong is planning to use your incident to launch an operation to destroy Buddha within the Tang Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Dao Qiu became very excited for a moment. He began to wave his arms and beat his head non-stop, saying, "This is all my idea, and I did it all by myself."

"My lord, please save my Buddhism."

From these words, Li You saw Dao Qiu's sincerity, and he understood that what happened this time should really be caused by Dao Qiu alone.

Then Li You asked again: "Where did your medicine come from?"

Through Duan Murong's research, Daoqiu's medicine was not produced in the Central Plains, and the reason why Li You came here to ask Qiu was that he wanted to trace the source of these medicine bottles.

Dao Qiu was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that in this situation, Li You's attention was actually on that medicine.

But even though he didn't understand, Dao Qiu still told the truth about the only person who could help him.

These pills were indeed not made in the Central Plains, but came from preaching monks in the Western Regions.

"Where are these monks now?"

The appearance of these Hu monks immediately aroused Li You's vigilance.

Li You knew that the purpose of these monks traveling thousands of miles to bring these pills to the Central Plains was definitely not as simple as helping the world and saving people.

Li You, who has studied the history of this era in particular, knows that the purpose of these monks coming to the Central Plains has never been pure.

As early as Emperor Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, the Buddhist master at that time, such as Huiyuan, planned to make Chinese civilization submit to the kingship of India through Buddhism.

It was precisely because of the emergence of these Buddhist heresies that Emperor Wu of Zhou finally made such a major determination.

After experiencing the extermination of Buddhism twice in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Buddhism actually restrained a lot.

But these two exterminations of Buddha also let some eminent monks understand that in the absence of a foundation, it is still impossible to compete with the imperial power simply by developing believers and expanding the scale of the industry.

The way they try to control the stability of the grassroots and negotiate with the imperial power is completely unworkable in the Central Plains.

To this end, they began to look for other ways.

And these pills are a new method they thought of.

Before coming to Datang, they had experimented in some small countries in the Western Regions and achieved remarkable results.

Now many countries in the Western Regions have completely transformed from native religions to Buddhist countries, and it is only a matter of time before they submit to the rule of India.

For this reason, these Hu monks began to secretly enter the Central Plains and distribute the pills in the Central Plains.

Of course, they didn't say the purpose of these pills directly, but they gave a detailed explanation of the effect of the medicine.

They just wanted to use the native monks of the Tang Dynasty to accomplish their goals.

Unfortunately, their plan hadn't been implemented long before they met Li You!
Li You, who is well aware of the dangers of these pills, will never let them continue.

Li You can ignore the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, but he must do drug control.