Let's talk about the movement to destroy Buddha first. As we all know, there were four top-down campaigns to destroy Buddhism in China: Emperor Wu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Tang Wuzong, and later Zhou Shizong. The four emperors were not interested in Buddhism, and they all rejected and attacked Buddhism. Therefore, in the history of Buddhism, this is called "the case of the three armies". Some monks and nuns in Tang Wuzong were forced to return to the secular world, and those who violated the criminal law and precepts were not allowed to become family members; Some temples have also been demolished, with fewer than 200 people living in them, and those built without government approval have to be demolished; Some temple properties, such as land, houses, metal Buddha statues and private savings of some monks, were confiscated and all were nationalized.
If Tang Wuzong only brings disaster to Buddhists, it is not a big problem. Buddhists are only a minority after all. Besides, for real Buddhists, if you destroy the temple and force me to return to the secular world, I can still be a layman and practice at home, which is equally rewarding, right? The problem is that Tang Wuzong brings disaster not only to Buddhists, but also to ordinary people. Tang Wuzong rejected Buddhism, but he believed in Taoism, especially superstitious Taoist immortals. A Taoist priest who owed him a house told him that using people's hearts as a medicine guide can be refined into a magical elixir, and long-term use can make him immortal. In fact, Tang Wuzong thought "put a knife in the heart of a boy and girl aged 65,438+05"-he asked local officials all over the country to give him the hearts of boys and girls aged 65,438+05. Why do you have to be 15 years old or a virgin? It's not mentioned in the history books. I think it may have something to do with Uncle Luo. Luo's book is a mysterious arrangement of numbers. There are nine numbers in this arrangement, which are divided into three lines. No matter which line adds up to fifteen, so do vertical addition and diagonal addition. Perhaps it is that the characters in Uncle Luo contain some kind of power, which helps him to live forever.
After winning the hearts of the people, how can we refine it into a "panacea"? It is not mentioned in the history books, but we can infer it from the alchemy of human mind recorded in the magic books. According to the spell book, the altar must be built with loess before alchemy. Let the mage go to the altar, draw a spell to recruit immortals, and then read the spell: "I order the mage to enter the palace to recruit immortals quickly." I can't disobey the emperor's orders. "Put the sign on the fire, blow a breath to the east, and use this tone to blow out the fire. After burning to ashes, sprinkle it into the pot, add water to the pot, boil the water, and then put a childlike innocence and a childlike innocence in it to boil. After cooking, bury the heart and mix the medicine with the soup inside. Only one pill can be produced at a time. It is said that if you want to live forever, you always have to eat 500 tablets, which means killing 250 virgins and 250 virgins!
Tang Wuzong created an alchemy with his heart. The specific process may not be exactly the same as described above, but the number of virgins he killed is absolutely amazing, because the literature clearly says: "Let the knife enter a fifteen-year-old virgin." The "Tao" here is the administrative area, which is above the county level, smaller than the current province and larger than the current city. During the reign of Tang Wuzong, there were more than 40 such administrative regions in the Tang Dynasty. Even if he asks each administrative region to hand over only one child's heart, one child's heart, more than 80 people will die! In human history, dictators are brutal, stupid, shameless and selfish. Did Tang Wuzong become an immortal after eating the "elixir of life" refined by human mind? No, this man asked the local official to provide for the people of Huichang for four years and died in Huichang for six years. He was only thirty-three when he died. The doctor said he died of dysentery. I don't know if it is because he eats too many people and has indigestion.
Among the Tang emperors, Tang Wuzong was not the only one who believed in alchemy, and Tang Wuzong was not the only one who died in alchemy. Before Tang Wuzong, Tang Muzong was also an alchemist. He was poisoned by Dan medicine. He was only 30 when he died. There is also the famous "sage of a generation" Emperor Taizong, who was also an alchemist in his later years. His elixir composition should not be popular, but there is stalactite grinding powder. After taking it for a long time, he finally died of "dysentery" like Tang Wuzong.
Having said that, I believe that the fans of Emperor Taizong will stand up and ask, "What evidence do you have?" It's simple. You can read 95 volumes of New Tang Book and Tongzhijian 199. Some friends also said: "alchemy is a hobby of Taoism, but Emperor Taizong believes in Buddhism." Didn't he support the Tang Priest to learn from the scriptures? How can I go to an alchemist! "In fact, Xuanzang went to India to learn Buddhist scriptures without the permission of the imperial court. He went there illegally. In addition, alchemy is not a hobby of Taoism, but a branch of combining alchemy with Taoism. Besides, faith has been mixed here for a long time, and some materialists will also ask' masters' to show feng shui to buildings. Why can't Emperor Taizong believe in Buddhism and alchemy?
Not to mention several big names in the Tang Dynasty, such as Han Yu, He and Li Bai. Everyone believes in alchemy. Han Yu fed sulfur to the rooster and then ate it until it died suddenly. At the age of 80, I pulled an alchemy pill; Li Bai asked his fourth wife, Li Shishi, to become a monk in Lushan Mountain and learn immortality from the female Taoist Confucius. He also experimented with mercury, cinnabar, mica and clothes of newborn babies, all of which are examples.
The king is an alchemist and the scholar is an alchemist. From our current scientific point of view, they are all stupid. Fortunately, scholars are stupid and kill a few cocks at most; If the king is stupid, he may kill many people. It can be seen that the stupidity of ordinary people is not terrible, but the stupidity of leaders is terrible. On second thought, the stupidity of leaders is not terrible. The terrible thing is that we have no ability to stop his stupidity.