Chapter 396 Exile monks and nuns to go to Western Xinjiang, not allowed to get something for nothing!

  Wei Zhongxian has been linked to Zhang Gui because of his own interests, so naturally, he can only firmly support the rectification of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

   Therefore, he continued to refute these powerful bureaucrats in the name of not bearing the common people being enslaved by Buddhist temples, and even made harsh words, saying that if these powerful bureaucrats continue to make trouble, they will be killed for trespassing.

   Guo Zuoyong, Li Chengming and other dignitaries and bureaucrats had no choice but to leave, but their eyes revealed resentment towards Wei Zhongxian.

   Wei Zhongxian didn't take it seriously, just smiled contemptuously, and then entered Xiyuan.

  After all, although these dignitaries and bureaucrats are respected, they are actually more timid than each other, and they will not really dare to tear themselves apart from the imperial court for Buddhist monks and Taoists.

  The dignitaries and bureaucrats had no choice but to take the initiative to dismiss the monks and nuns from their own temples and take back the temple properties of their own temples.

  For a while, the number of homeless monks, nuns and monks increased in large numbers.

"The reason for all of today's events is because the imperial court wants to rectify Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, so that we now have no half tiles to live in, and no half grains of food to eat! But didn't the imperial court itself repeatedly say that Han people should have compatriots, and we are also Han people. , so the imperial court can’t leave us alone!”

"That's right, we don't want to join any cult rebellion, and we don't dare to oppose the imperial court's will, but the imperial court can't let us starve to death, why don't we just sit outside the Daming Gate for alms, until we starve to death! Let’s see if the imperial court can solve it.”

  Because of this reason, many monks and nuns also complained about the imperial government's policy of rectifying Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, and rushed to the capital one after another, preparing to sit and demonstrate outside the Daming Gate in the name of alms.

  However, the Ming court naturally did not intend to ignore these monks, Taoists and nuns who left Buddhist temples and Taoist temples. Instead, they set up many official schools and prepared to recruit them to receive relevant vocational training.

   It’s just that these monks and nuns are not used to work, so where are they willing to learn skills and think about making a living by working? He also ignored these official schools responsible for vocational training, and only wanted the court to continue to support them.

  So, outside the gate of Daming, many monks and nuns gradually sat down, knocking on wooden fish and holding broken bowls.

  Going to the back, the entire Qipan Street outside Daming Gate is almost full of monks, nuns and nuns sitting here, densely packed, and even impassable.

  So that in the end, the monks and nuns sitting here spread to the outside of the city, and they seemed to be deliberately going on a hunger strike to protest.

   "What should I do? Shuntian Mansion reported that tens of thousands of monks, nuns, and nuns have been sitting outside, and the city patrolling censor went to persuade them and refused to leave."

  Wei Zhongxian now directly asks Zhang Guilai for instructions.

   Zhang Gui pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then glanced at Wei Zhongxian: "Perhaps, we can't be too polite."

   "You mean kill them, or really starve them?"

   Wei Zhongxian asked.

  Zhang Gui asked: "Do you think they would really be willing to starve themselves to death?"

  Wei Zhongxian said: "That's not true. Few people can resist hunger. But there is no guarantee. There will never be such people. They would rather starve themselves to death than let the court take care of their lives."

   Zhang Gui said after hearing this: "In this way, all those who go on hunger strike to protest and demonstrate will be sent to the newly opened territory in the west!"

   "Don't they yearn to go to the West, and if there is bliss in the West, let them go to the West to enrich the new frontier."

   "Even if they want to starve themselves to death, they will starve to death in the frontier!"

   "In addition, for those who do not follow, there is no need to be executed, but to be exiled to Western Xinjiang as punishment!"

   "In short, we can no longer just let them lose the opportunity to work. The more unwilling they are to work by themselves, the more they have to work by themselves."

"good!"

  Wei Zhongxian also ordered the official schools of Dongchang and Jinyiwei to rush towards Daming Gate, and asked Xu Xianchun to personally issue an order to these monks and nuns to go into exile if they went on hunger strike to protest.

  Many monks and nuns obediently left here, not daring to go on a hunger strike to protest. After all, compared to being exiled to the bitter cold places in Western Xinjiang, even if life is much worse inside the pass, it is still better than outside the pass.

  But there are still many monks and nuns who are not moved. They just don’t want the court to rectify Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, so that they can continue to live the life of landlords in temples and Taoist temples.

  Xu Xianchun simply ordered that these monks, monks, monks and nuns be forcibly captured on a large mule cart, and then transported to Western Xinjiang.

   "Why are we exiled, what crime have we committed?!"

   "We just came here for alms. The imperial court refused to let us eat the rent of the common people. Wouldn't it also allow us to ask for alms?!"

   Therefore, a monk asked loudly at this time, expressing his dissatisfaction with the imperial court's current policy of rectifying Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.

   "What do you factory guards want to do? Can you gamble money, eat wine, sell jokes, sing operas, and sell business outside the Daming Gate, but you can't ask for alms?!"

  Jiao An, who had already shaved his hair and served as a little monk watching the vegetable garden in a temple in the capital, also directly questioned these factory guards at this time.

Jiao An didn't expect him to be so unlucky, because he still wanted to get something for nothing, so he didn't choose to go to the government-run vocational school to learn any skills, but in the end he still didn't choose to go from the palace to the palace. A monk, so that he can still be a slave in the Marquis's Mansion before, as long as he serves the monk in charge well, he can continue to dominate in front of the temple's tenants and low-level novice monks.

   But who knows, in the blink of an eye, the imperial court began to rectify the Buddhist temple, so that now he had to follow a group of brothers and sisters to the Daming Gate to protest in the name of alms.

   But the factory guards under Xu Xianchun's command naturally wouldn't reason with these in a nice way.

Xu Xianchun himself even kicked a monk flying away who refused to leave and even scolded their factory guards, saying: "Ask you what crime you have committed. You have committed the crime of gathering crowds to plot chaos. You are very suspected of plotting chaos. According to the order above, if you don’t leave, you will all be exiled to the western border! If you resist, you will be castrated as punishment!”

   As he spoke, Xu Xianchun waved his hand and ordered the factory guards under his command: "Catch!"

"yes!"

  The factory guards agreed, and then began to pick up the shackles to arrest these monks and nuns who refused to leave.

  So, many monks and nuns were arrested and put into a large prison cart pulled by a large mule cart. Six or seven people crowded together, as if pulling a pile of clothes.

A monk couldn't control his emotions, and relying on some martial arts skills, he took a Zen stick and hit the factory guards, shouting: "Fuck you, dare to arrest this monk, I will make your factory guards bleed today!" this!"

boom!

  But at this time, a gunshot.

  As the saying goes, no matter how good your martial arts are, you are still afraid of firecrackers.

  The monk came to the end immediately, and then several factory guards surrounded him, took out short knives, and stabbed the monk on the spot.

"ah!"

  The monk screamed, and was immediately carried down by several factory guards, and thrown into the prison cart.

  The other monks and nuns all changed their faces when they saw this, and they didn't dare to move any more, so they were all caught in the prison car.

   "They said they were begging?"

   Zhang Gui learned the latest situation from Wei Zhongxian shortly thereafter.

  Wei Zhongxian said: "That's right, Xu Xianchun told his son himself, they said that the imperial court would not allow them to live on the common people and rent their children, so shouldn't they be allowed to ask for alms?"

   "It's just not allowed! Let them maliciously beg for alms, wouldn't it appear that His Majesty is incompetent in governing the country?"

  (end of this chapter)