Even the national treasury funded the construction of temple pagodas, casting eighty-four thousand copper towers throughout the realm, with indiscriminate alms, forming a trend of "solemn almsgiving, recitation vigils, with no vacant days in the month."
Corresponding to this was Zhou Shizong's destruction of Buddhism (in the second year of Xiande, temples were destroyed to mint coins, and monks and nuns were forcibly secularized).
It's a pity that Chai Rong died too quickly, otherwise he might have been a formidable ruler.
This is the infamous 'Three Wus and One Sect's Destruction of Buddhism' event in history.
So many times were they destroyed.
Yet, they could not be thoroughly eradicated, as Zhou Shizong Chai Rong's suppression of Buddhism was followed by sudden death within a few years.
Heading all the way north.
Duncan traversed the world, entered the realms of the Central Plains, and continued northward, gradually reaching Youzhou.
