Tuoba Hong, the eldest son of Emperor Tuoba GUI of the Northern Wei Dynasty, was established as the Crown Prince at the age of four, and his mother died. Because of the deep affection between Tuoba GUI and Dou Shi, Tuoba GUI was handed over to Dou Shi for care. At this time, Dou Shi has been promoted to Queen Mother, who is the first person in the harem of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Dou Taihou, 65, believes in Buddhism. After the monks moved to Pingcheng, Dou Taihou will bring his grandson Tuoba Huang to attend the lecture.
As you can imagine, in terms of Gao Xuan's ability here, it is also fascinating, that is, after this, Tuoba Hong actually worshipped Gao Xuan as a teacher to learn Buddhism. It can be said that Tuoba Hong actually grew up under the influence of Buddhism, and it is conceivable what the status of Buddhism will be in his heart.
But as early as a year ago, when Tuoba Tao attacked Beiliang, there was a problem of losing soldiers.
Zhou, an anthropologist, once talked about this problem: "During the period of Tuoba Tao, this movement had not subsided, and he needed a large number of people and soldiers. How far did he go at last? When it comes to military service, there is no military service, no corvee and insufficient taxes. Then this matter will affect the national security. "
Therefore, Tuoba Tao issued an urgent imperial edict: all monks under the age of 50 should be secular.
However, a year later, Beiliang became extinct and the world was settled. Maybe it's because Tuoba GUI's welcome to Gao Xuan inspired people. Since then, the number of civil Buddhist attendants has increased rather than decreased, and the courtesy of the harem to Buddhism has become more devout, all of which makes Tuoba Tao helpless.
With the increase of temples, believers will flock to them, and there will be mixed situations. According to records, after Buddhism entered the Central Plains, it also absorbed the theory of divination, and drawing lots made divination mysterious. Obviously, these acts of Buddhists directly hurt the interests of the new Taoist leader Kou, who is regarded as a Buddhist.
In addition, Ho Choi, who is proficient in Confucianism, has been arranged by Tuoba Tao as the teacher of the Prince. However, after Gao Xuan was welcomed into Pingcheng, Taizi Tuoba Hong became more and more pious to Buddhism, thus getting farther and farther away from Confucian classics, which also meant that the relationship between Buddhism and Ho Choi had undergone a qualitative change.
Barto, Ho Choi and Kou Qianzhi, three people with different identities, have the same interests at this time, thus reaching a * * * understanding. In the tacit understanding, three people made a decision.
In 440 AD, Tuoba Tao designated Taoism as the state religion of the Northern Wei Dynasty and renamed it "Taiping Zhenjun". It is recorded in the Record of Relieving the Old that in the third year of Taiping Zhenjun, that is, on the seventh day of the first month in the spring of 442 AD, Tuoba Tao prepared a French coachman and went to the Taoist altar with a blue flag to formally accept the symbol of Taoism. Then, in the fourth year of Taiping Zhenjun, that is, in 443 AD, perhaps to justify himself, Tuoba Tao sent a special envoy Li Chang to the north of Daxian Mountain to find the ancestral home of Tuoba Xianbei.
This year, Tuoba Tao was fighting in Liu and Song Dynasties in Jiangnan. In addition, the Great Xianbei Mountain is a long way away, and the war in the northern Wei and southern Xinjiang has not stopped. Tuoba Tao himself is not in a hurry to return to his ancestral home.
During the period of Five Colors and Sixteen Countries, Five Colors fought in the north of the Yangtze River, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty dominated the south of the Yangtze River. In 420 AD, Emperor Wu of Song usurped the throne to replace the Eastern Jin regime, and changed the country name to Song, which was called the regime in history.
Since then, Tuoba Si of the Northern Wei Dynasty has conquered Liu Song several times, but each has its own outcome. It was not until the arrival of the Tuoba Tao era that the north settled down. Liu Song felt the pressure doubled, so he began to actively plan a decisive battle with Tuoba Tao that might come at any time.
The year after the emissary came back from Gaxian Cave in Xianbei Mountain, that is, the fifth year of Taiping Zhenjun, in 444 AD, TaBaTao ordered Prince TaBaHuang to supervise the country, and Ho Choi and others assisted him.
This arrangement is obviously the same as that of Tuoba Si, who wants to make his hands free to concentrate on fighting south.
However, it was at this time that there was a big problem in folk conscription. According to Buddhism, there were 30,000 temples and 2 million monks in the Northern Wei Dynasty. According to the geographical records of Shu Wei, the population of the Northern Wei Dynasty ranged from1/kloc-0 to 20 million. A country on the verge of war, how dangerous it is to get rid of half the women and the sick and disabled, but there are 2 million able-bodied people who sit and enjoy sacrifices without paying any taxes.
Realizing this situation, Tuoba Tao was furious and sent a letter to the world: "Buddhists, under the guise of western illusory things, are full of evil." From the princes down to the ordinary people, from now on, any monk or wizard who keeps it privately will be sent to the government, and can no longer keep it. The deadline is February this year 15. If you don't pay it within the time limit, all the wizards and monks will be killed, and the master will copy it all over the door. "
This harsh command has shown that Tuoba Tao's patience with Buddhism is being ruthlessly lost. In Pingcheng, the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, monks were stopped by soldiers and forced to return to the secular world.
It can be inferred that for those who just want to avoid taxes, this is just a trivial matter to change their lifestyle. But for those who believe in Buddhism, this is tantamount to a spiritual destruction.
However, the monks at that time did not realize that this kind of suffering was only the beginning, and the real terror had not yet begun.