Chapter 1152: The end of destroying the Buddha
Chapter 1152 The end of destroying the Buddha
Chapter 1150: The end of destroying the Buddha
"Master Bodhidharma, you are kind to me, and we are not outsiders, so I will go straight to the point."
Qin Hao looked at Bodhidharma with a serious face and said in a deep voice: "This time Sakyamuni took action personally and broke the rules. Although I don't want to fall out with the Buddhists, I have to punish the Buddhists severely.
Now it is very simple for me to withdraw my troops, as long as the master agrees to my three conditions on behalf of Buddhism. "
Dharma had already been mentally prepared for this, and said with the same seriousness: "Your Majesty, please speak."
Seeing this, Qin Hao nodded and said: "First, rectify the Buddhist classics, take the essence and discard the dross, limit the number of people in Buddhist temples, do not fool the people's beliefs, do not allow extravagance and waste, and do not occupy large amounts of fertile land..."
Bodhidharma was shocked. Just this one, there are more than three, right? But after a long time, he still said in a solemn voice: "Okay."
It won’t work if you don’t agree.
Although this condition of Qin Hao will greatly damage the vitality of the Buddhist sect, if the move to destroy the Buddha caused by Qin Hao cannot be stopped by Qin Hao, the other princes who are like hungry wolves will see Qin Hao follow the Buddha. After the family has gained huge benefits, they will definitely follow Qin Hao's example and trigger a wave of extermination of Buddhism. Only then will the real catastrophe for the Buddhism family occur.
That's why Buddhism is so eager to obtain Qin Hao's forgiveness, because it wants to prevent the world's princes from rising up to destroy Buddhism.
Of course, this still cannot avoid disaster.
Qin Hao has already benefited from Buddhism, and he will definitely not spit it out. Therefore, even if Buddhism has been forgiven by Qin Hao, he still has to bleed a lot to buy his life from other princes.
Seeing that Bodhidharma agreed, Qin Hao was not surprised at all. He nodded and continued: "Second, being a monk does not mean that you will enjoy privileges if you become a monk. From now on, Buddhist disciples will have to pay taxes like the common people."
After hearing what Qin Hao said, Bodhidharma was shocked and thought to himself: How cruel!
The biggest privilege of a monk is that he does not have to pay taxes. With this, Buddhism can continue to attract people to become a monk. However, if this privilege is lost, the number of monks will be greatly reduced in the future.
If Qin Hao does not take action, he will deprive Buddhism of its biggest advantage. If Bodhidharma agrees to this, then Buddhism will lose any specialness and will become a school of the same nature as hundreds of schools of thought. .
Dharma wanted to refuse, but he still couldn't.
The biggest trump card of the Buddhist family is that there are hundreds of families behind them who come to intercede for Buddhism, and Qin Hao absolutely cannot refuse the demands of the hundreds of families.
The Hundred Schools do not want to see the princes suppressing Buddhism. After all, today the princes can suppress Buddhism, and tomorrow they can suppress other Hundred Schools of thought, which will greatly reduce the status of the Hundred Schools.
But as for the elimination of Buddhist privileges, Baijia is definitely happy to see it succeed. After all, Baijia does not have the privilege of not having to pay taxes. Whether they are Confucian scholars or Taoist priests, they all need to pay taxes, so why can monks not have to pay taxes? pay?
Qin Hao's second condition can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Not only did it directly suppress the Buddhist school, but it also directly pushed the hundreds of schools that were originally on the side of the Buddhist school to the opposite side of the Buddhist school. If the Buddhist school refused, they would become the whole Enemies of princes and hundreds of families.
Thinking of this, Bodhidharma spoke with great difficulty: "Yes, yes." Seeing this, Qin Hao showed a victorious smile and said with a smile: "Third, I hope that Master, you can move your bed and stay at the White Horse Temple forever."
When Bodhidharma heard this, he was stunned for a moment. After confirming that he heard correctly, he breathed a sigh of relief.
This third article talks about moving the couch, but in fact it asks him to serve Qin Hao. After all, the White Horse Temple is in Luoyang, and the eternal town of the White Horse Temple means that he will always be in Luoyang. This is to use his great strength. The strength of the Grandmaster can intimidate hundreds of other schools.
If Bodhidharma agrees to the third article, it means that he will lose his personal freedom. Although this seems unreasonable, compared with the other two articles, it is already too tolerant. After all, the first two The first article is directed at Buddhism as a whole, but the third article is only directed at Bodhidharma personally.
Although Bodhidharma doesn’t know why Qin Hao is targeting him, compared with the entire Buddhist sect, my Bodhidharma’s personal freedom is nothing!
As soon as he thought about it, Bodhidharma immediately said in a deep voice: "Okay."
Qin Hao laughed, narrowed his eyes and said: "Since the master agreed to my three requests, I should also obey the agreement and order the withdrawal of troops. I hope that the master can restrain the Buddhists to abide by the agreement and not let the Buddhist teachings threaten the country. An artifact.
After all, since I can withdraw my troops, I can also send out troops again. If I send out troops again to attack Buddhism, it will not be the lineup this time. I hope the master will bear in mind. "
"Thank you Lord for your forgiveness, poor monk, no, the Buddhists will definitely remember it." Bodhidharma said respectfully.
Qin Hao saw that Bodhidharma, as a great master of the generation, could keep his attitude so low, and understood how wronged he had been in this crisis-ridden game, so he stopped trying to pry him off.
What Qin Hao didn't know was that as soon as he stepped forward, Bodhidharma's face showed joy.
“Although the losses in this disaster are great, as long as we can survive smoothly, our Buddhism will be reborn from the ashes and become a new Buddhism with more vitality.”
Bodhidharma was actually extremely dissatisfied with some of the teachings in Buddhism and the trend of extravagance. But after all, he was not the leader of Buddhism before. Although he wanted to change Buddhism, he was powerless.
Now Sakyamuni broke the rules and brought disaster to the entire Buddhism. Although Qin Hao's conditions were excessive, they coincided with Bodhidharma's desire to rectify Buddhism, so of course he agreed. In Bodhidharma's view, Coming here is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
The news that Qin Hao reached an agreement with Buddhism and recalled the army to destroy Buddhism soon spread throughout the world.
"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. Bodhidharma had already taken care of Qin Hao before we even showed up. It seems that this visit to Luoyang was in vain." Gongsun Long said with a faint smile.
“Bodhidharma agreed to such an outrageous request, so why should Qin Hao be dissatisfied? Now all the princes in the world have to thank Qin Hao again.” Yan Dan said lightly.
Hearing this, Confucius glanced at the crowd and said with a smile: "Bodhidharma has long had the intention to reform Buddhist teachings, and Qin Hao's attack this time may be an opportunity for him."
Confucius couldn't help but have a hint of envy in his eyes. In fact, he also wanted to reform Confucianism. After all, today's Confucianism is no longer the Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius, but the Confucianism of Dong Zhongshu. However, the situation of Confucianism is far more complicated than that of Buddhism. There are so many, it is impossible for him to reform Confucianism on his own.
"If you want to reform Confucianism, I'm afraid you have to rely on the power of the princes." Confucius thought to himself.
(End of this chapter)