Chapter 1153: Holding the emperor hostage to order the princes
Chapter 1153: Holding the Emperor hostage 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 campaign to exterminate Buddhists lasted for nearly two months. Almost 90% of the Buddhist temples in Sizhou and Jingbei under Qin Hao were destroyed at one time.
After statistics, a total of more than 140 large and small Buddhist temples were destroyed, and more than 6,000 monks were killed and captured. However, the Qin army only suffered less than 1,000 casualties.
This shows that although the forces in the Jianghu 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 in money, 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. Qin Hao's seizure of the Buddha this time, regardless of other things, 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. More.
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 enlightened 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. Faced with the Qin army's sharp knife formation and crossbow formation, countless eminent monks died under the Qin army's butcher's knife.
This includes 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 had reached the level of half-step grand master, in addition to one who was killed by Gao Chong at the beginning, another one appeared later and was also killed by Gao Chong and Pei Yuanqing.
Half-step Grand Masters are the mainstays of any school, but the Buddhist school has lost two of them at once. This is already a serious injury, and it may not be able to recover in another ten years.
In this battle to destroy the Buddha, the endless lineup of Buddhist masters has also frightened all the disciples.
It turns out that without even realizing it, the external Buddhist school had grown to such an extent that among hundreds of schools of thought, only Taoism could steadily dominate the Buddhist school.
The Buddhist School naturally aroused the fear of the other Baijia forces, but even such a powerful Buddhist school still could not stop the army of only five thousand princes. This also made the Baijia realize their strengths and weaknesses again.
The advantage of Bai Jia is that they have most of the talents in the world. They can use their talents to directly or indirectly influence the princes, or the princes they support.
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 a large army, but how many grand masters can there be in a hundred families in total?
After realizing this, the top leaders of various schools of thought all had complicated thoughts. Today's world is no longer the world that they were allowed to control at will. The princes from all over the world are the real controllers of the world.
Hundred 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. This is really a case of evil people getting their own way!
Qin Hao's campaign to destroy Buddhism this time was mainly aimed at Buddhism, but it also played the role of knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger, which greatly frightened all the schools of thought.
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 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 caused the public security in Qin Hao's territory to deteriorate. been greatly improved.
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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, Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne again at the Luoyang Ancestral 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 Liu Yu succeeded Yizhou Mu in February and joined forces with Liu Ji to resist Chi You's invasion, to the time Liu Xie returned to the throne in Luoyang in April, too many major events have happened in this short two-month period.
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 various methods 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 Swordsmen 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 after the cooperation with Li Shimin was reached that Zhou Yu and Li Cunxiao attacked Hangu Pass in a surprise attack, blocked the food route of Yang Lin's army 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 set off a war between Jin and Yuan Dynasty.
Finally, 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 command 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 became the only person Liu Xie could rely on.
The first thing Liu Xie did after regaining 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 ministers 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 canonization on the grounds of "lack of qualifications" and ultimately only accepted the title of a second-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.
By then, the princes from all over the country were frightened by Qin Hao's huge military power and could only send messengers to Luoyang to recognize Liu Xie's orthodox status. In this way, Qin Hao's plan to coerce the emperor to control the princes would naturally be carried out smoothly.
Therefore, the canonization of other princes can only be carried out after Qin Hao unified Sizhou.
(End of this chapter)