Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Li Shimin said: "I just came back from my husband. The map was given by him, but he refused to tell me where he came from."

gentlemen?

It turned out to be Li Yi'an's stuff again.

Then it is normal, because what the husband gave is normal even if it cannot be explained.

At this time, in their eyes, Li Yi'an is also a fairy-like figure.

"How would you know, sir, there is such a big place in the world besides the Great Tang. Africa and America are so far away from us. Even if you exhaust the power of the Great Tang, it is difficult to describe the specific location."

Fang Xuanling said in surprise: "Sir, this is really amazing."

Li Daozong agreed: "I think it was because we were narrow-minded before."

Li Jing, the military god of the Tang Dynasty, and Du Ruhui, the minister of the Ministry of War, were even more eager for the map, which was definitely a sharp weapon for marching and fighting.

Knowing the terrain, location and distance in advance, you can deploy all troops in advance, which is the guarantee of victory in every battle.

A long time ago, Li Shimin also brought a telescope back to the Ministry of War, which also belonged to the husband, and those Mo knives made of fine steel. Combine these, who else can stop the Tang army?

"Your Majesty, can I take this map back to the Ministry of War and copy it? I promise to return it intact."

Du Ruhui said immediately.

"Your Majesty, our Ministry of Industry also needs a map. It will be much more convenient to have maps to assist in the construction of water conservancy in the future."

Duan Lun immediately agreed.

"In this way, Honglu Temple also needs a copy. This map is so large that it depicts the world. If foreign envoys come again in the future, we will be able to know in time where they came from and how they should come."

Li Daozong was not calm either, saying he wanted a copy.

"This map is precious, and I will not take it out and use it lightly."

Li Shimin said again: "It's just that I will send the auxiliary machine to come later, and ask the people from Chang'an Bookstore to make a copy and keep a copy in the bookstore, and then find a way to draw a large number of them, so that the three provinces and six departments can be owned by all civil and military officials."

For the original version of this map, Li Shimin will never show it at will, it is really too precious.

Du Ruhui and the others agreed after hearing this. This is the best distribution method.

"Duan Qing, I asked you to come, and there is a good thing, I have to show you."

Li Shimin put the blueprints for shipbuilding on the map and carefully laid them out.

"Is this a boat?"

As Minister of the Ministry of Industry, Duan Lun could tell what it was at a glance.

He looked at it carefully for a while, nodded and said: "This is still a sand boat, but the manufacture of this boat seems to be much more complicated than our usual ones, and it is even bigger. There are five tricky rods in total, which is really too big. Looks pretty durable again."

Through these sketches, Duan Lun can't tell much, but he thinks it's very powerful.

"This is also what the master gave me!"

Li Shimin simply repeated Li Yi'an's words to them.

"Waguo is a tiny place, and the Japanese dare to speak up and break into Chang'an. Who will give him the confidence."

Li Jing said angrily: "Your Majesty, I would like to take a fleet to sea and destroy that Japanese country!"

Li Daozong said: "I also know who the envoy of the Japanese country, A Meiren, is, but they suddenly disappeared and were never found again."

Li Shimin snorted coldly and said, "It was I who asked Junxian to solve them secretly, but it is not easy to destroy the Japanese kingdom. As the master said, we know nothing about the sea, and we are not as familiar as the Japanese."

"At present, if we want to build such a large ship in the name of the imperial court, we must first start with river transportation, then train water warfare soldiers, and then go to sea for training, develop the sea, and build the strongest water warfare soldiers in Datang."

Li Shimin looked at them and asked again: "Do you think it's okay?"

"The minister believes that this will cost a lot of money, and it will easily drain the treasury!"

Fang Xuanling shook his head: "I don't agree with this."

"It's just a big ship, and I don't know how much it will cost. I'm afraid it's a bottomless pit. It's naturally good what you think, but it's not easy to implement it."

Duan Lun put down the blueprint with regret.

Although the current Tang Dynasty has become rich, it still takes a lot of effort to engage in such a large-scale engineering project.

Even if Li Shimin insisted on doing this, those censors would definitely call him the second Yang Guang. Yang Guang went to the south of the Yangtze River on a dragon boat before.

"The minister thinks that you have to think twice before you can guarantee whether it will be implemented!"

Du Ruhui didn't quite agree either.

Hearing their objections, Li Shimin thought about it for a long time and asked, "Chengfan, according to the records of the Chongren Office, how many Buddhist temples are there in the Tang Dynasty? How many monks and nuns? How much land?"

Chongren Administration, affiliated to Honglu Temple, is the official department in charge of Taoism and Buddhism.

"Returning to Your Majesty, there are more than 3000 Buddhist temples recorded in the Tang Dynasty, and there are more than 3 Buddhist temples in Lanruo."

Li Daozong didn't know why he asked this question, but he could memorize these data fluently, and replied truthfully: "All Buddhist temples cover an area of ​​tens of thousands of hectares, and there are more than 50 monks and nuns..."

Lanruo is a Buddhist noun, here it refers to the monastery!

"so many!"

Li Shimin exclaimed.

There are more than 3000 Buddhist temples, and there must be at least one golden body of Buddha and Bodhisattva in them. Calculated in this way, there are at least more than 3000 golden bodies.Even more, it is made of copper, how much copper is it.

You must know that copper coins are the most circulated currency in this era, and it is extremely difficult to mine copper mines. How much money do you need to use those golden bodies to cast copper coins?Li Shimin didn't dare to estimate, it should be true that he couldn't count them all.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of hectares of land and more than 50 monks and nuns. How much resources and labor will this occupy in the Tang Dynasty?

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the angrier he became. No wonder Mr. proposed to restrict Buddhism. It was not without reason. Buddhism was really too much.

"Chengfan, what you said is all recorded, that is to say, there are still unrecorded, and the people below are unwilling to report, so there will only be more?" Li Shimin asked again.

"Maybe, but the territory of the Tang Dynasty is so large, we Honglu Temple can't find it out for a while." Li Daozong responded in a panic, fearing that he would be accused of not being loyal to his duties.

"Then how many Taoist temples are there inside and outside our Chang'an city? Compared with Buddhist temples, who has more?"

"Of course there are more Buddhist temples. There are only more than 20 Taoist temples inside and outside Chang'an, but there are more than 100 Buddhist temples!"

Speaking of this, Li Daozong was a little nervous.

Because Li Tang recognized Lao Tzu as his ancestor, but there are so many Buddhist temples than Taoist temples, where should the Li family put their face?

Seeing that there was no expression on Li Shimin's face, Li Daozong didn't dare to say any more.

"Your Majesty, why did you suddenly ask about the Buddhist temple?" Fang Xuanling asked curiously.

Li Shimin was about to tell everything, but it is more serious to do something against Buddhism, so he hesitated for a while and said loudly: "Xuanling, pass on my order to let Xiangzhou Fu Yi come to Chang'an to see me .”

Fu Yi?

They all know this person. He was the one who advocated the eradication of Buddhism during the reign of Wude.

Is His Majesty going to attack Buddhism?

At this moment, this idea emerged in their hearts at the same time.

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, it's bad!"

At this time, Guo Dong hurriedly walked into the Ganlu Hall, because he walked too fast, his footsteps were unstable, and he fell heavily on the ground, and said eagerly: "The East Palace...is on fire!"

"East Palace, Prince!"