roccoschili The First Champion Chapter 545
The First Champion Chapter 545
Liu Xinting was secretly speechless, but the officials around him were already very excited. The money was used to fill the local treasury, not to mention such trivial things as building bridges and roads, expanding colleges, and building houses and nursing halls. The old and homeless widows and orphans were all sent to the foster care.
These are all real political achievements. Now the Xingyang officials are about to ascend to heaven collectively.
Just when everyone was amazed, Yang Lin came over and was a little lost when he saw the money all over the floor.
It's not that he hasn't seen so much property, but he didn't expect to see so much money in the Buddhist hall.
In fact, many monasteries have their own basements.
480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, how many buildings are in the mist and rain...
No matter the change of dynasties, natural disasters or man-made disasters, the more turbulent and poorer the time, the more countless people entrust their afterlife and donate their money to the Buddha in exchange for peace of mind.
Over the years, I don't know how much wealth I can accumulate, so whenever there are ruthless people in power who want to make a difference but suffer from lack of money, they often target the monastery.
The most famous are "Three Wus to Exterminate Buddha" and Chai Rong to Exterminate Buddha. The three martial arts are Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Emperor Wudi of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and Emperor Wuzong of Tang Dynasty.
In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it was especially powerful. In order to persuade Yu Yong not to "destroy the Buddha", the eminent monk Huiyuan argued sharply: "Your Majesty relies on the power of the king to destroy the Three Jewels, referring to the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. Hell, no matter high or low, is your Majesty safe and secure?" Emperor Wu was furious after hearing this, and stared straight at Huiyuan: "As long as the people are happy, I am not afraid of going to hell!"
In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian claimed to believe in Buddhism even though she killed all the relatives of her husband's family and was as vicious as a snake because of her improper position.
In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there were nearly 5000 large and medium-sized temples in the country, as many as 40000 small temples, nearly 30 monks and nuns, and 15 temple slaves.
The problem is that these monasteries still occupy hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land, forming relatively closed manors one after another, and the economic power inside the monastery is in the hands of the abbot.
The monks and nuns seldom cultivated, but relied on farmers to cultivate the monastery land to collect land rent and issue usury loans as a source of income. This practice allowed the monastery economy to expand rapidly, to the point that "everything in the world is rich, while the Buddha has seven or eight" .It can be said that the abbots of these temples have become local emperors, and seven or eight percent of the world's wealth has flowed into Buddhism.
Chai Rong, a generation of British lords loved by thousands of historians, ordered the abolition of Buddhism not long after he took the throne, prohibited private monks, abolished more than [-] monasteries without imperial quotas, purchased Buddha statues and made money, greatly increasing national power, It provided financial and human support for its conquest of the world.Once it was time to take back Youyan, restore the homeland, and achieve a prosperous age.
After Yang Lin approached, Liu Xinting and others leaned forward. Yang Lin sighed and said, "The Buddha's teaching is originally a good teaching to help the world and encourage good people, but it's a pity that the monks' hearts are not all devoted to the Buddha, but it has become a place where filth is hidden. , People who evade military service and hard labor; people who commit crimes abound. People even destroy copper coins to build bronze statues. Under the privileges of tax exemption and land enjoyed by temples, temples have concentrated a large amount of social wealth. Serious It endangered the development of the country's economy and became a cancer of the imperial court."
"Buddhism is innocent, but those who are guilty are these fake monks. People who are sincerely devoted to the Buddha are indifferent to fame and wealth, and practice asceticism to cultivate their hearts. Why should they collect money?"
Everyone nodded again and again, Yang Lin said: "All the fake monks in the temple who supervise the temple and those who manage finances will be pushed out to the mountain gate to be executed. The Buddhist gate is not clean. I will help the Buddha clean up the gate. Confiscate all the land of Baiquan Temple and write a letter in my name Let the imperial court set up a new government office to manage Buddhism and Taoism. From now on, collection points will be set up in all temples. All the money donated for sesame oil will be collected by the government, and then the tax will be collected, and then used to build bridges Build roads, help the poor, do good deeds and accumulate virtue. If there are dilapidated temples that cannot make ends meet, the local government should also provide food and rice. After the monks ordain for a year, they should examine Buddhism, go out to travel for alms, persuade people to do good, and go to the religious offices of various prefectures along the way Affix a seal and leave a seal, and those who fail to pass will be expelled from Buddhism."
Yang Yizhong ordered a few of his subordinates, and quickly grabbed Zhi Le and the others, and headed out of the mountain gate.
Liu Xinting leaned forward and said, "Master, there are still a few gentry."
"Go, go and clean up the local tyrants and evil gentry who don't obey the law!"
Chapter 6 Luoshui Shangshang, buried in Beimang
The grass grows, the warblers fly, and the flowers and branches are luxuriant.
Outside Xingyang, all the officials arrived and respectfully sent Yue Wang Yang Lin to continue westward.
Yang Lin abandoned the carriage, rode on the horse, and waved back.
This visit to the first stop in the world has successfully demonstrated the determination of this trip, which can be said to be an example to others.
Xingyang was full of blood, and many big households who wanted to resist the New Deal and refused to pay service money died.
Accompanied by this resolute law enforcement, the huge amount of labor money collected by the government also attracted the attention of the world.
In the Secretary of General Administration, Cai Jing applauded again and again. He is the founder of the New Deal, and many policies are written by him.
When he was in power, he made a lot of compromises for Zhao Ji and for the support of scholar-bureaucrats.
Even so, there are still many difficulties, and it is difficult to implement the decree after it leaves Kaifeng.
This incident in Xingyang touched the old Cai Jing a lot. Whether it is the late old minister Wang Anshi or the successor Zhang Dun, their methods are good, but in order to reform, they also need to compromise too much.
Reforms with foresight and foresight can't shake the chronic diseases of this society at all. Those vested interests entrenched in the country and sucking blood will crush the reforms.
Immediately, the people from the General Administration Department exaggerated and magnified the Xingyang incident, and spread it all over the world in the form of mansion newspapers.
Governments all over the country became tougher, and some colluding with the gentry were also afraid of being reported and exposed, and they were in constant panic.
The governors of thirteen provinces were ordered to set up inspection departments in various prefectures, counties and counties. Bai Shizhong under Zhongshumen had already ordered that by the middle of the year, the state capitals that had not thoroughly checked the land and collected the service money, the prefects and prefects headed by them must be abolished.
Under the rule of the governors of each province, if there are more than three state capitals that have not been completed, the governors and governors will be removed.
At this time, the benefits of the separation of the military and the government were fully manifested. The governors and generals of the provinces went to the Yamen every day to urge the governor to investigate the case for their official positions.
The soldiers and horses under his command moved around and trained back and forth to frighten the gentry under his rule.
However, the imperial court had greatly reduced the official positions due to the abolition of officials, which caused the slowness of the Imperial Academy to recruit scholars, and there was a certain relaxation at this time.
The newly established government office has been decided by Bai Shizhong, the prime minister in the Mingtang, and named it: Department of Dianjiao.
The Department of Classics and Education is subordinate to the household department and is in charge of the nationalities, religions and customs of the world.
Officials were selected from all over the country to open houses and government offices. Every temple, Taoist temple and other temples had special officials to collect incense money from believers.
The money is managed by the government in a unified way, and part of it is distributed to various temples and Taoist temples.
Of course, monks can also report and apply. If something breaks in the temple, it will be repaired by the Yamen of the Department of Classics and Education, and there is no need to spend money on it.
If you do some rituals, the money you collect will not be handed over except for taxation.
In this way, it is obviously impossible to have no worries about food and clothing while chanting scriptures in the temple without having to give birth.
Why don't you follow Dongluoshui, and someone's family will bury Beimanshan again.
Beiman, east of Luoyang, is the burial place of countless heroes and generals. It seems that all the heroes hope to be buried here after death.
Sad wind blows, waste smoke buries hatred, inscriptions are incomplete and hard to recognize.Do you know that he is the emperor of the Han Dynasty and the minister of the Jin Dynasty?Spend all the wind and cloud celebrations, and become the dust of Beiman Mountain.
At a glance, it is very open. The terrain of Beiman Mountain is undulating and gentle, high and open, high in the middle and low around.
In March of Yangchun, wild flowers bloom all over Beiman Mountain, such as Cypress, Forsythia, Peony, Rhododendron, etc.The most conspicuous, of course, is Luoyang Peony.
After walking for two days, on the ground in Luoyang, Yang Lin has seen soldiers and horses passing by many times.
This time on the official road, he met the troops of the brigade again, Yang Lin finally couldn't bear it, and stopped the leader.
Coming to Yang Lin's horse, looking at the purple gold official uniform on his body, the general already knew the identity of the person in front of him, so he couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
"The last general, Luoyang Defense Envoy Zheng Qiao, has seen Shao Zai."
Yang Lin held the reins of the horse and asked, "What are you doing back and forth?"
"Returning to Shaozai, the higher-ups ordered that soldiers and horses need to pass through a county in three days and be stationed for one day. If there is a local government that needs to be dispatched, we can cooperate in time."
Yang Lin nodded secretly, it seems that this time, the intensity of killing one to warn others is very strong, and the effect has already come out.
As long as the pressure continues to be applied so that local governments attach so much importance to it, it will become the norm in the next three to five years.