Li Chao's two methods can increase the imperial court's income by one million a year, and if the international trade is operated well, it can be more in a few years.
This greatly exceeded Li Shimin's expectations, after all, he only wanted one million yuan to support the Northern Ya, and the prime ministers were willing to give 500,000, but he was only 500,000 short.
But who hates a lot of money.
The emperor doesn't like a lot of money. 500,000 can do 500,000 things, if there is a million, you can do 1 million things, and if you have more money, you can do more things.
"Wenyuan, what's the third way?"
Li Chaomin is very much looking forward to the fact that the two methods can increase the income by one million, and the third method will definitely be better.
"Your Majesty, this third method can make the imperial court immediately gain more than 30 million yuan, tens of millions of acres of land, and nearly 10 million new population."
As soon as Li Chao's words came out, in the political hall, the emperor and the prime minister all had different faces.
They immediately knew what the third method Li Chao was talking about.
Destroy the Buddha Li Chao had already written a book of 10,000 words before, but after Li Shimin read it, he only gave it to the prime ministers to read, and did not show it to other officials.
This matter can be regarded as a discussion at the top.
However, before the Xuanwu Gate, the Emperor Li Yuan and Pei Lin Feng Yi and other prime ministers had already reached an agreement to destroy the Buddha.
Among those who agreed in the political hall at the beginning, there are still several in today's political hall, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, and Yang Gongren, they all agreed to it.
What can make Li Yuan and his monarchs and ministers reach a unanimous attitude of destroying Buddha is not that there is something wrong with Buddhism, the teachings of primitive Buddhism are to lead people to goodness, and to make people cultivate, and everyone to become a Buddha.
Buddhism is relatively mild, although there are also Maitreya cults and other cults that are rebellions in troubled times, but after all, they are in the minority.
For the imperial court, the people believe in Buddhism, which is not a bad thing.
It is not a bad thing for monks to recite sutras and worship Buddha and worship idols.
But the bad thing is that the scale is out of control, which has seriously affected the imperial court.
There are even many emperors in history who worship Buddha, such as Emperor Wu of Southern Liang, who also became a monk, and even asked the great dynasties to pay a huge amount of money to redeem him from the Buddhist temple to the court, and then came again not long after.
Large-scale funding for the construction of Buddhist temples, and so on.
As a result, there were poems such as the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasty, and Liang soon perished.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court continued to destroy one anti-king after another, and gradually dominated the world.
But Li Yuan found that his Datang household registration was pitiful.
The Sui Dynasty had nearly 9 million households, almost 50 million people, and when he ruled the world, only 3 million households remained, more than 15 million people, and only more than 2 million teachers remained.
This registered population is only one-third of Sui.
But the Sui chaos has only been more than ten years.
It is impossible for so many people to die.
Where are the people?
Fled, hidden.
The imperial court engaged in Juntian, so that many fugitives returned to their hometowns or settled on the spot, but there were still many hidden households.
It was hidden by the wealthy family and hidden by the temple monks.
Li Yuan didn't have the ability to directly fight against the powerful people of the family, so he had to take the monks.
Who made them so fat.
Li Yuan touched the bottom, the power of Taoism is far inferior to Buddhism, all over the Tang Dynasty, there are more than 40,000 large and small temples and nunnery, and hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns, but the fields they occupy and the hidden population are extremely amazing.
Suppressing Buddhism, Li Tang will be able to have a fat year immediately, and even be able to grow stronger.
It's just that Li Shimin's Xuanwumen change made this matter stop.
After Li Shimin came to power, he suspended the matter in consideration of the factors of his improper position and the thought of stability.
And now, Li Chao has brought it up again.
"More than 40,000 Buddhist temples, nearly a million monks and nuns, no less than 10 million hidden hidden households under the temple, tens of millions of acres of land, and tens of millions of temple properties, Your Majesty, Buddhism has no control, it has been like a huge tumor, deeply endangering the Tang Dynasty.
It has to be managed."
Li Shimin was also constantly reading the numbers one by one in his heart.
I'm a little short of breath.
He was still fighting with the prime ministers for a million yuan, and he couldn't settle the Beiya Forbidden Army for two million acres of land, but those monks occupied so many fields, hid so many people, and owned so many properties.
He knew that in fact, the wealthy families had more land, more people hidden, and more property, but that couldn't be moved.
And these monks and nuns are able to move.
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These people do not pay taxes, do not serve, do not serve their parents, do not serve the king, do not have children, do not even work in farming, weaving, except for chanting scriptures and worshiping the Buddha, they are completely sitting back and enjoying their success, building a large number of temples, sculpting countless golden and bronze statues, and constantly absorbing the money of the people, and in turn using the sesame oil money of these believers to borrow and buy land Indeed, as Li Chao said, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work.
At the beginning, Li Shimin was very scruples, after all, there are many people who believe in Buddhism, and the influence of Buddhism is also very large.
Especially when the palace changes and seizes the throne, the world is not very stable, if the Buddha is destroyed, someone will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble.
But now.
Li Shimin felt as if the world was still very stable.
Shouldn't this matter be brought to the stage?
"Wenyuan, tell me what you think."
Although I have made a decision in my heart, after all, this matter is not trivial, and if you really want to operate it, you must be cautious and careful.
If you don't plan and act in a hurry, the consequences are unpredictable.
"Your Majesty, it's actually quite simple.
Under this whole world, it is not the king's land, the guest of the land, and the king's minister.
Buddhist monks, they must first be the people of the Tang Dynasty, and then the disciples of Buddhism, they must first abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and then practice the Buddhist scriptures, this must not be reversed. ” "There is only one edict that every county in the world is allowed to keep one temple and one nunnery, each state can keep another temple and one nunnery, the capital can retain three temples and three nunnery, and the rest of the temples and nunnery will be banned."
Li Yuan's original plan was to stay one temple in each state and three temples in the capital.
The strength is much greater than that of Li Chao.
There are more than 1,000 counties and more than 300 prefectures in the world, and according to Li Chao's method, more than 1,300 temples and nunnery should be retained in the end.
"Will it be too much?"
"Your Majesty said that there are too many of these, is it too much to retain, or too much to withdraw," Li Chao asked.
Li Shimin said very directly, "I feel that I have too much to reserve. ” "Your Majesty, the golden mean, don't go to extremes.
Buddhism was out of control and was too spoiled, which seriously affected the national economy and people's livelihood.
We need to ban and control it, but it doesn't mean that it will be completely extinct.
After all, Buddhism has been introduced to China since the Han Dynasty for thousands of years, and many people believe in Buddhism.
As long as they are under the control of the imperial court and the scale is within the permission, it will be fine. ” "More than a thousand is still a lot."
Li Shimin was thinking about how much land he had to occupy with more than 1,000 incomes.
"It's not that we don't just ignore these temples that have been preserved.
We need to adopt a multi-step strategy and strengthen control.
For example, we have to further stipulate that the number of people in each prefecture should be limited to 10 people.
The state retains that one, with a limit of twenty people.
The temple in Kyoto is limited to 50 people. ” Not only should there be a limit, but there should also be other restrictions.
For example, every monk and nun has to go through the examination of the imperial court, using the Buddhist scriptures and the laws of the imperial court as the examination questions, and finally decide to stay these candidates.
Those who pass the examination must also be issued by the imperial court and have the permission and certificate to become a monk.
This certificate has to be charged, and a copy of the dish is sold for at least 10 yuan, so that more than 1,300 temples and nuns are reserved in the country, and about 30,000 monks and nuns are retained in the country, and they have to pay 300,000 yuan to the imperial court.
And this degree disc has to be reviewed annually, and you have to pay at least the same amount of money every year.
If you don't pay the money, you can't pass the annual review, and the disc will be invalid, and you will have to redo it, then you have to pass the exam first, and you have to pay ten times the money, and you have to have a quota.
The number of places is strictly limited, and can only be less than exceeded.
Vacate a slot to add one.
"Ten times a degree disc, once a year, once a consistent money" Xiao Yu was shocked by Li Chao's idea of lacking morality.
"The number is also strictly limited, and only a few are not allowed to over-empty one to make up one" Chen Shuda also stroked his beard and exclaimed.
"You can collect more than 300,000 yuan just by selling the degree disc once, and you have to collect more than 30,000 yuan for a year's annual review."
Fang Xuanling was amazed.
In the past, there were actually charges for the disc, which can be regarded as a special tax, but it is by no means as open and honest as Li Chao did, and the price is clearly marked.
In addition, the property of each reserved temple should also be strictly limited, and according to the number of monks and nuns in the temple, the court will grant them land.
Each person will be granted 50 acres of land, of course, if the existing land reaches the grant amount, it will not be granted. ” And if the quota is exceeded, the excess land must be recovered by the imperial court.
The granted land can be cultivated or rented, but the rent must be paid according to the rent system, and monks may be exempted from labor and military service, but they must pay exemption money. ” One person is limited to 50 mu of land, and the more than 30,000 monks and nuns retained in the whole country can only retain more than 1.5 million mu of land.
According to Li Shimin's knowledge, there must be tens of millions of acres of temple fields in the country.
This trick is what Li Shimin is most satisfied with.
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If the land is granted, it will be collected if it exceeds the amount of land.
It's a bit of a banditry, but who wants you to pay no taxes in the past?
"This is good, this I am very supportive, monks and nuns chant scriptures and chant Buddha all day long, and they don't have to produce, it's good to give them fifty acres of land."
"Your Majesty, it should also be forbidden to cast Buddha statues in temples and nunnery in the world, copper should be listed as a national strategic material, statues should be worshipped, mud puppets are OK, and copper and gold are prohibited."
As for the existing bronze statues, those that have been pasted with scriptures, of course, they must be destroyed according to the regulations.
Those temples that have been banned should also be repurposed for other purposes, and if they are not useful, they will also be demolished.
For the wild monks who do not have a degree disc, they must catch one when they find one, and if they catch one, they will go to the frontier to work in the fields.
For these people, we must not get used to it.
"It is also necessary to clearly stipulate that it is forbidden for monasteries and nunnery to open warehouses and engage in lending.
If you accept mortgages or loans in violation of regulations, the imperial court will strictly prohibit them, confiscate their property, and impose fines. ” Buddhism was able to expand rapidly and resurgence again and again, and the most important thing was not only the support of the upper classes, but also the strength of their monastic economy.
It has a large field of land and has a large amount of liquidity.
The tenants of the fields were used to rent grain, and the believers paid tribute to the incense money, to lend and borrow, and in this era, lending and borrowing was actually a very profitable business, a million profits.
It is precisely in this way that the monks will be so rich, if they are powerful.
Take away their fields, forbid them to engage in commercial activities, and these monks will no longer be able to shake off. t1706231537: