Chapter 1153: Use the emperor to order the princes
Chapter 1151: Use the emperor to command the princes
After Qin Hao''s order to withdraw troops was issued, as soon as Tan Daoji received a letter from Fei Ge, the five thousand troops who destroyed Buddhism immediately withdrew their troops overnight.
This campaign to destroy Buddhism lasted for nearly two months, and almost 90% of the Buddhist temples under Qin Hao''s command were destroyed at one time.
After statistics, a total of more than 140 Buddhist temples of all sizes were destroyed, and more than 6,000 monks were killed and captured, while the Qin army only suffered less than a thousand casualties.
This shows that although the power in the world is strong, it is still vulnerable to the regular army of the princes.
In addition, the Qin army liberated more than 50,000 people, seized a total of 40 million yuan in money, worth 20 million yuan in antiques and treasures, seized nearly 500,000 stones of food and grass, and seized a large amount of fertile land and real estate.
It has to be said that Buddhism is really rich. Qin Hao’s capture of the destruction of Buddhism this time, regardless of the other, just food and grass, is enough to support the Qin army in a medium-sized battle.
No wonder Buddhism is so eager to reconcile. It is to minimize the losses. Otherwise, even if you take the initiative to give "protection fees" to the princes, the princes in various places may not be willing to collect them. After all, you will definitely get more of them when you grab them.
In addition to the losses in money and food, the biggest loss in Buddhism is talents.
As soon as he learned that the Qin army was about to destroy Buddhism, many Taoist monks all over the world gathered in Sijing to stop the Qin army from destroying Buddhism.
As for the final result, it naturally did not play any role. Faced with the Qin army''s sharp sword formation and crossbow formation, countless monks died under the Qin army''s butcher''s knife.
This includes four masters, three half-step masters, eight first-class masters, twenty-eight first-class masters, and more than a hundred second-class masters.
As for the monk at the half-step Grand Master level, in addition to one of them being killed by Gao Chong at the beginning, another one appeared later, and was also killed by Gao Chong and Pei Yuanqing.
A half-step master is a pillar of the country for any school, but Buddhism has lost two people at once, which is already a damaging problem and may not be able to recover in another ten years.
In this battle to destroy Buddhism, the endless lineup of experts from Buddhism also shocked all schools of thought.
It turns out that before we knew it, foreign Buddhism had grown to this point. Among the hundreds of schools of thought, only Taoism can suppress Buddhism.
Buddhism has naturally aroused the fear of other hundreds of schools of thought, but even such a powerful Buddhist can still not stop the army of only five thousand princes, which has made the hundreds of schools realize their strengths and weaknesses again.
The strength of the Hundred Schools is that they have most of the talents in the world. They can directly or indirectly influence the princes or the princes supported by their own talents.
But if you confront the princes head-on, it will undoubtedly be a master who is less than the level of a grand master. No matter how strong he is, he cannot withstand the encirclement and killing of the army. But how many grand masters are there in a hundred schools?
After realizing this, the senior officials of all schools of thought were complicated. Now that they were no longer in the world where they could do whatever they wanted, the princes from all over the world were the real controllers of the world.
The various schools of thought can destroy the foundation of the Han Dynasty by borrowing the Yellow Turban, but they are powerless to do anything to the princes who are separating the country. This is really a wicked person who is the one who is evil!
Although Qin Hao''s battle to destroy Buddhism was mainly aimed at Buddhism, it also played a role in shaking mountains and shaking tigers, greatly shocking all schools of thought.
This indirectly caused the style of the Baijiajia to change suddenly and it was no longer as domineering as before.
This is an unexpected joy for all the princes in the world.
The act of destroying Buddhism has many benefits. In addition to shocking all schools of thought, it also scares all the sects in the world, and the world. After all, even the princes dare to destroy Buddhism, and it is too simple to destroy a sect.
After this battle, all major sects in Qin Hao''s territory clamped their tails and acted cautiously for a long time, and did not dare to easily violate the laws set by the Qin army, which also greatly improved the public security in Qin Hao''s territory.
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In April, the second year of Chuping (191 AD).
On the fourth day after Qin Hao returned to Luoyang, surrounded by many civil and military officials including Qin Hao, Emperor Liu Xie of Han ascended the throne again at the Taimiao of Luoyang and changed his reign to Jian''an.
Since then, under the promotion of Qin Hao, the butterfly, 191 AD became the first year of Jian''an, five years ahead of the first year of Jian''an in the original history.
From the beginning of Liu Yu''s successor to the governor of Yizhou and jointly resisting Chiyou''s invasion with Liu Ji, to the time when Liu Xie reassigned the throne in Luoyang in April, too many major events have happened in just two months.
First, the Thirteen-stick monk saved Li Shimin. Shakyamuni took a move to break the rules, but it led to Qin Hao''s large-scale destruction of Buddha.
Later, Su Lie defeated Wang Mang, forcing Wang Mang to retreat to Hanoi, trying every means to strengthen his power, and finally even held a martial arts conference.
In order to avoid the pressure from the hundreds of schools of thought, Qin Hao led Seven Swords 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 fight Yang Jian.
It was also after the cooperation with Li Shimin that Zhou Yu and Li Cunxiao attacked Hangu Pass, blocked the food route of Yang Lin''s army in Yewangcheng, and attracted Yang Guang and Yang Jian''s 70,000 troops to attack.
After letting Li Shimin go, Qin Hao went to the martial arts army in person to kill Wang Mang, but accidentally broke through Yuan Meng''s conspiracy and issued a warning to the Jin army in advance, so that the Jin army would be prepared in the face of Murong Ke''s attack, and the Jin army also launched the Jinyuan war.
In the end, Qin Hao personally led his men to destroy the base of Xuanjingsi, captured Princess Yuanmeng Zhao Min alive, and led everyone out of the siege and back to Luoyang under the heavy siege.
In just two months, Qin Hao had almost traveled to Sizhou and experienced a series of thrilling events. Now he has finally returned to Luoyang to support the emperor and ascend the throne, thus opening the road of holding 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 officials around him, after he ascended the throne again and with all the civil and military officials of the court, Qin Hao naturally became the only person Liu Xie could rely on.
The first thing Liu Xie did after he ascended the throne was to enthrone the ministers, of course, the premise must have been approved by Qin Hao.
During this enthronement, all the civil and military officials loyal to Qin Hao were promoted, and the cohesion of his ministers was greatly improved.
As for Qin Hao himself, Liu Xie originally wanted to grant Qin Hao the title of General and King of Qin, but Qin Hao voluntarily refused the title on the grounds that he was "deficient in qualifications". In the end, he only accepted the position of General of the Cavalry and Duke of Qin, and his fief was Nanyang County.
Qin Wen, the father of Qin Hao, who was far away in Jinyang, was named General and King of Jin by Liu Xie, and his fief is Taiyuan County.
Except for Qin Hao and Qin Wen, the other princes have not yet been enthroned. After all, the other princes have neither sent a pilgrimage to Luoyang, nor have they recognized the orthodox status of the Han Dynasty.
Today, Sizhou is still in war, and when Qin Hao has to unite the forces of Qin and Jin armies, its 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 go to Luoyang to recognize Liu Xie''s orthodox status. In this way, Qin Hao''s plan to use the emperor to make the princes succeed.
Therefore, the enthronement of other princes can only be carried out after Qin Hao unified Sizhou.
(This chapter ends)