Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Chu Mo shrugged, with a sly smile on his lips and said, "You see how considerate I am, I have already found excuses for you, and as you just said, you are willing to do anything for money."

Li Shimin took a deep breath and looked at the two corpses on the ground with burning eyes, as if they were not corpses, but real mountains of gold and silver.

"Is Buddhism really as rich as you say? Can you guarantee that I will be able to raise enough military expenses this time to attack Buddhism?"

Chu Mo breathed out from one nostril and snorted disdainfully: "I don't know if Buddhism has money, and I don't know if you can get enough military expenses from them."

"I only know that if you don't have money, you won't be able to get a grain or a hair from my hands."

With that said, he returned directly to the house, ignoring Li Shimin who was still stunned.

Li Shimin stood in front of the woodshed and thought for a long time. Finally, he clenched his fists, gritted his molars and warned himself that this was his last chance.

If he couldn't get enough money, Chu Mo's stupid thing might really cut off his logistics.

Thinking of this, Li Shimin did not go looking for Chu Mo anymore, but returned directly to the palace.

Soon, Wang Dehai came with a team of Qianniu Guards and took away the bodies of the two monks.

When he wanted to take away the remaining two living monks.

But he was directly rejected by Chu Mo.

According to Chu Mo's original words: "These two people are worth nothing. They don't have tens of millions of taels of ransom. It's just a daydream to leave from food."

Wang Dehai, who left in despair, brought Chu Mo's original words to Li Shimin, only to receive a cold: "I understand."

At this time, Li Shimin already knew that the matter could not be resolved.

Originally, he wanted to take advantage of Chu Mo's carelessness to get out the two half-dead monks, and then hand them over to the Buddhists in exchange for some benefits. Maybe he could collect enough military expenses without offending them.

But I didn't expect Chu Mo to be so vigilant. If this is the case, then he can only go to the dark side in one way, and there is nothing to worry about.

Thinking of this, a stern expression appeared on his face.

Later, Li Shimin summoned the civil and military ministers to the imperial study room to discuss matters.

The group of people talked from noon until late at night, and then it ended.

Less than half an hour after everyone left the imperial study, the entire army inside and outside Chang'an City, as long as they could wear armor and go into battle, were all summoned.

Just when everyone was still immersed in the fragrance of dreams, twelve city gates opened at the same time in Chang'an City.

Wave after wave of soldiers, wearing shiny armor and carrying cold weapons, poured into Chang'an City from various city gates with neat steps.

They directly surrounded all the 64 monks' temples and 27 nuns' temples in Chang'an City.

Then, a eunuch came to announce the decree, saying that the leader of the Buddhist sect, the monk Hui Jue, had no regard for the common people in the world and wanted to rebel. He openly tore up the tripartite agreement and launched a surprise attack on the Taoist sect master.

As a witness to the agreement and a signatory, the Tang Dynasty could not sit back and let such evil thieves go unpunished.

His Majesty issued a special decree and posted an imperial notice, requesting the entire Tang Dynasty to search for Monk Huijue. Anyone who obstructed or harbored the monk would be regarded as treason, and his family would be confiscated and exterminated.

As for the Daxingshan Temple where Monk Huijue lived, His Majesty the Emperor only ordered that a group of his accomplices be arrested and brought to justice out of consideration for old friendship, while other unrelated persons were not punished.

As for other temples and monks who are in cahoots with Monk Hui Jue, everything related to Hui Jue will be dealt with severely.

After the eunuch read out the imperial edict, a large number of officers and soldiers rushed into various temples carrying swords and spears.

Anyone who resists or obstructs them will be hacked to death on the spot.

As for what to resist and what to block, there are no special rules.

As long as you are found to have the intention of resisting or trying to obstruct, then I'm sorry, you are going to participate in the rebellion. Don't think too much, just go up and chop it into a pulp first.

Suddenly, the temples in Chang'an City were filled with heads and blood stained every corner.

Even though Li Shimin was so ruthless in his actions, many powerful Buddhist officials seemed not to notice, allowing the officers and soldiers to do what they did without any intention of taking action.

In the end, at most, it was just some old monks and a group of monks gathered around to chant sutras and achieve salvation.

If the court behaved like this, before Hui Jue made a sneak attack on Yang Hongyu, those Buddhist masters would definitely take action and talk to Li Shimin.

However, since Huijue and his party failed to attack Yang Hongyu, causing heavy losses to the Buddhist sect, they suffered heavy losses at the hands of Chu Mo one after another.

Last night, we lost four grand masters in a row.

At this time, he no longer had the capital to fight against Li Shimin, and he could only watch helplessly as the soldiers rushed into the temple and acted randomly.

However, what they didn't expect was that Li Shimin's original intention was not to capture Hui Jue at all, but to completely eradicate Buddhism and shake the foundation of Buddhism.

If you don't move, it will be over. If you move, you will root out the weeds and kill them all. They will never give Buddhism a chance to breathe again.

Li Shimin now also wants to understand that although those monks chanted Amitabha non-stop all day long, they also spoke compassionate words such as all living beings are equal and our Buddha is compassionate.

But those monks are all fat and big-eared. They do one thing on the outside but another behind the scenes. They do a lot of bullshit on weekdays.

No, after a short search, the officers and soldiers found a lot of evidence of guilt. Even if there was no evidence of guilt, Li Shimin would have someone arrange it for them. But all he could think about now was how he stole these monks' lairs.

But now that he was directly searched, he no longer had to worry about Internet crimes. This also made him believe Chu Mo's words even more, and he felt even more disgusted with Buddhism.

However, what he didn't expect was that because Buddhism was temporarily unable to make an enemy of the royal family, it didn't want to end up together.

Therefore, whenever the officers and soldiers found evidence of a crime, a monk would take the initiative to confess the crime.

If one or several monks encounter a serious crime that they cannot admit, then the monks will blame the abbot who has passed away, or the monk who has just gone to see the Buddha.

In short, whenever something is discovered, someone must come forward and confess.

In this way, the officers and soldiers who were searching would not be able to wave the butcher's knife justifiably.

(What Buddhism said is purely fictitious and required by the plot of the novel without any deliberate guiding intention)