A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 443
If you want to add a crime, why don't you have no words?
Wu Huaiyu didn't have any pity and sympathy for Pei Ji, and he didn't even have the association of the death of a rabbit and the sorrow of a fox. In the era of imperial power, this kind of situation was too common. Pei Ji himself couldn't recognize the situation, so who could be blamed.

"Duke Yi, the Huadu Temple copied armor, crossbows, horses, and many war horses."

Ma Sanbao coughed and handed a list to Huaiyu.

It lists the armor found in Huadu Temple and other three-tiered temples.

One armor tops three crossbows, and the three armors enter the underworld.

Secret possession of armor is regarded as treason, which is clearly stipulated in the law. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, one collar and three crossbows are privately hidden, and the flow is two thousand miles. Three armor collars and five crossbows are twisted.

This is where the folk saying comes from.

The number of armored crossbows found by the third-order sect is quite a lot. There are not only ordinary armors such as Guangyao, Xilin, and Wuhammer, but also advanced armors such as Mingguang, Shanwen, and Suozi.

In addition, there are leather armor, cloth armor, rattan armor, silk armor and other armor materials.

There are over a thousand armors of all kinds.

Wu Huaiyu turned to look at Ma Sanbao.

The old horse coughed twice, "They were all found from the third-order sect,"

What he meant was that it wasn't framing.

Faya was once a guest on the emperor's throne. Although he was not granted the title of great virtue, the ten virtues of the Manchu capital are not as appreciated by him as Emperor Fayad. After all, no other monks have been granted wives, concubines, titles, or land by the emperor. , gold and silver, etc., and no monk was allowed to form a regiment of two thousand monks.

That was a person who had power for a while.

"These armored crossbows are not drawn by the imperial court, are they?"

Ma Sanbao shook his head.

At the beginning, the emperor agreed to Fa Ya's request to play, and asked him to form two thousand monks to join the anti-Japanese army. However, because Zhishi and others objected, many monks in Chang'an also wrote a letter against them. If it can be done, it will be dismissed directly.

Weiwei Temple naturally took back those heavy soldiers such as armor, bows, crossbows, spears and horses.

Even if it is a mansion soldier, after the squadron returns to the army mansion, the armor and crossbow machine must be stored in the armored warehouse of the army mansion. The mansion soldiers also keep their bows, knives and spears with them for daily training and so on.

But now, thousands of collars of armor of various types, hundreds of crossbows, many bows and arrows, spears, knives and axes, and even some vests have been found in the temples of the third-order religion.

This is obviously the equipment of Falla's private armed force, which was obtained from various channels in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties.No one cared about it before, but now these are capital offenses.

"Those bald donkeys also said that it was hidden by Fa Ya and has nothing to do with the temple. Isn't that bullshit?" Although Ma Sanbao was born as a domestic slave, his eyes can't tolerate sand.

If you want to fool him, there is no way.

Although Fa Ya is not the abbot of Huadu Temple, nor is he the leader of the third-tier sect, but he has a very high status in the third-tier sect. Headquarters, in recent years, Fa Ya, Huadu Temple and Sanjiejiao have been closely linked, so it doesn't matter now?

Can you shake it off?

"First temporarily seal up all the temples of the third-order religion, take away all the monks and nuns, and the slaves in the temple will have no officials."

"Inspect the Endless Tibetan Courtyard of the Third Tier Religion, clear up their property, temples, workshops, fields, livestock, slaves, money, silk, gold and silver, etc.,"

"Investigate the illegal behavior of the Third Tier Sect over the years."

A number of powerful departments have joined forces to mobilize the Beiya Forbidden Army. Although the third-tier religion has been extremely prosperous in recent years, it has more than 2000 temples in Chang'an, more than [-] monks and nuns, and even [-] monk soldiers, but it is still like morning dew. , evaporated immediately.

Wu Huaiyu brought dozens of boxes of ledgers into the palace to face the saint.

"When Xinxing founded the third-level religion, believers were asked to raise funds for saving Buddhism and repairing Tianxia Jialan. The money and silk donated went to Wuwu Zang, which was divided into two parts. , for disaster relief and famine relief. Even monks and nuns of the third rank are not allowed to eat a grain of food in the temple, but have to go out to beg for food, and only eat one meal a day.

But now the third-tier religion has allowed believers to give in sixteen classes, like a tax, at least three buckets of six liters of grain and 36 coins a year.

The donations from the third-order teachings are no longer just used for repairing gardens and disaster relief. Their donations are mainly used to lend and collect interest, buy farms, slaves, and livestock, and build mills and workshops to obtain more income.

The wealth gathered is also mainly used to provide food and clothing for monks and build new temples. Many monks marry wives and concubines and have children, living extravagantly. "

The current third-order sect is actually a family member wearing a cassock.

"Three-rank religion divides the property in the temple into the temple's property-Buddhist objects that support the Buddha, which is also the former respected land, and the common property of the monks who support the monks-Sangha objects. There are also property such as scriptures and images-Dharma objects.

Monks are divided into four kinds of permanent residence, including fields, mills, carts and oxen, and servants. "

"They divided the laborers in the monastery into several categories. One of them is slaves, servants and lowly slaves. Their descendants are all classified as permanent residents, and they are the common property of all monks.

The second is power supply, which is sent by the benefactor or the people who surrender themselves to ask for shade, and it is divided into two categories: lifelong and non-lifelong.

The third is the Hakka women of trilogy, which are cheap, but they can also have private property such as clothing and livestock that are not to be pursued.

It belongs to the resident trilogy, also known as the monk and the pure man. "

The third-tier sect is very rich. On the one hand, it is equivalent to taxation, on the other hand, it lends money to collect interest, and on the other hand, it accepts land donations, and buys land to build workshops. They have done the most profitable business in this era.

In the ancestral courtyard from Zhongnan Mountain to Xiangsi Temple, they built thirteen halls and four thousand buildings and corridors. Chang'an Huadu Temple has been built over the years, and now there are 48 courtyards with more than 4000 rooms.

The emperor flipped through the ledgers.

The more I looked, the more shocked.

One of them records that a new Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva pavilion was built in Huadu Temple last year. It is clearly written on it that it is included in the money of 480 seven strings and 950 coins. This is the total number of special donations received due to the construction of the pavilion. A total of thirteen thousand and fifty-two pieces of silk, one thousand and eighty pieces of five hundred and three coins, and other miscellaneous money for the jacket totaled 52 five pieces and 350 pieces.

There are also records of expenses, such as spending 540 yuan, 540 yuan, 610 yuan, 85 pieces of wood for the buyer, 350 yuan more for lime, terracotta, black wax, etc., and more than [-] yuan for hiring tile houses and handmade food.

The actual cost was less than 2 guan, but more than [-] guan were donated, and there are more than [-] guan left.

Since Li Shimin came to power, he lived in the small East Palace, and he was reluctant to even repair the palace, it was too expensive.

But these temples spend tens of thousands of guan to build a pavilion, but in the end they can earn more than [-] guan.

Not to mention the various incomes of the Third Tier Sect are clearly listed on the ledgers at the back.

In addition to the temple’s own farms, many people bring their fields to surrender and take shelter under the three-tiered temple. In this way, they become households fleeing from the court and do not have to bear rent and taxes and miscellaneous corvees for official service. The rent, which is slightly lower than the imperial rent, also requires some free labor for the temple every year.

In addition to the manor, they also run very profitable mill houses, beam houses, mansion shops, cart workshops, etc. The mill houses and beam houses are workshops for milling rice and flour. Oil mills, these two are industries that the nobles in Chang'an are vying for control, and the profits are very high.

Especially for water mills, building dams and mills on various canals in Gyeonggi Province can produce non-stop production day and night, and the profits are extremely high, which even affects farmland water conservancy irrigation.

The income from oil mills is also high.

Didian is a warehouse and a warehouse, and it also serves as an intermediary transaction. Chefang rents cars and horses, and even does transportation business, all of which are very profitable industries.

Not to mention their endless stash of loans.

Competing for profit with the people, really competing for profit with the people, Li Shimin's beard is shaking wildly, these bald donkeys are doing more business than the imperial court, and they do what they want to make money.

There is no capital to make money, and the empty-handed white wolf will get angry just looking at it.

Especially when I saw Huadu Temple, there were no more than [-] official monks, but there were thousands of slaves and servants under their names, and there were also a lot of people who gave their strength to provide for them. Surrender, even with land surrender, reduced the court's tax sources.

Openly digging the foot of the court wall, and digging so hard.

A small Huadu Temple, under the name of the temple field, has hundreds of hectares in Gyeonggi alone. This is the land of Gyeonggi, and there are not many princes in the court.

Under the land equalization system, monks and nuns can share [-] to [-] acres of land, but a temple with dozens of monks owns hundreds of hectares of land, thousands of slaves, countless guest girls, and fugitives who surrendered under the name of Topi. It's too much for a common people.

They even have two thousand private soldiers, and the manor shop under their name is attached to a large number of people.

Li Shimin has clearly realized that, like the San Tier Sect, they actually own the temple leader and their own territory, because they have manors and fields, and there are tribe slaves attached to the population, their relationship is very close, and they are closed to the lord. relationship makes no difference.

On the surface, those people are still the people of the imperial court, but in fact, the Third Tier Sect has a lot of power over these people, whether it is rent collection or forced labor, and may even be adjudication of disputes.

And these monks are so rich, but the imperial court has hardly charged them any tax. The monks are exempted from rent, tax and class service, and even the workshops and shops they open are not taxed.

"this is not right."

Li Shimin looked at the boxes of ledgers, his eyes were red, as if he wanted to eat people.

"Huaiyu, what do you want to do with it?"

"Could it be that I'm also going to destroy the Buddha once?"

Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty exterminated Buddhism, abolished more than 300 monasteries, and forced more than [-] million monks and nuns into household registration.

"Your Majesty, when the Buddha came to the East, he originally advised people to be kind, but now many monasteries and monks have misrepresented their scriptures, and they only want to make money or even enjoy themselves. Some have completely forgotten the precepts and married wives like Fa Ya. Concubines give birth to children, eat meat and drink, and even dare to complain to the court. There are many demon monks and evil monks who spread rumors to confuse people. These people are just fake monks.
The imperial court cannot overthrow all monks with one stick, but it must clean up such fake monks. "

"The third-level religion founded by Xinxing, although I don't fully agree with the third-level teaching of the end of the Dharma, but at least when he was there, the third-level religion had rules, and he did not force people to give. He voluntarily gave alms at will, and the donation he got was endless. Xiujialan, one cent for the three treasures, one cent for helping the poor, even if the money and food are lent, no interest is charged.

The monks endure hardships and humiliation, and practice the precepts.

But now it has completely changed, and the imperial court should supervise them to get to the bottom of their roots. "

(End of this chapter)