A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 456

"Why do you say you are here to join in the fun? Is there too much money to spend?"

Huadu Temple quickly raised 1 taels of gold, and Wu Huaiyu also held another exam in Huadu Temple as scheduled. This exam even invited ten great virtues, and invited the abbots and chiefs of the three major temples, etc. It was very grand.

In the end, the [-] monks and nuns were passed directly, and an ultimatum ceremony was held, and then the [-] monks and nuns were arranged in the third-level religious courtyard of the Forty More Temple in Gyeonggi Province.

Huadu Temple's ability to raise funds is really surprising, especially Wu Huaiyu's request to accept gold and silver as light goods, and the gold that he gave directly, and even the largest gold shops in the West City, helped to melt into a unified ten The two gold collars are of excellent color and quite exquisite.

The two batches before and after, totaling ten thousand taels of gold, were basically paid by the nobles and relatives of Chang'an, and the aristocratic families.

Consort Lu Huairang also donated 100 taels of gold.

"hey-hey."

Dou Luhuai made a hey smile,

"The imperial court issued bonds last time and asked everyone to claim some. Everyone was very stingy, but now this donation is very generous." Wu Huaiyu shook his head. pay taxes.

Moreover, according to the rent adjustment method of the Tang Dynasty, even if the rent is unavoidable, it is still paid by Ding, and it is only two stones per Ding a year to rent two Zhangs of silk and three taels of cotton.

What's more, officials themselves are exempted from school service, and senior officials can also exempt many relatives who live together from school service.

Why do nobles and tyrants like to merge fields?No cost, high income, this is like why property tax has not been levied in later generations, the same reason.

Wu Huaiyu has to levy two liters of grain per mu for his righteous granary. Up to now, people have written letters against him every day, and even impeaching him is a disaster for the country and the people.

They refused to hand over even two liters of grain for an acre of land, but donating 80 taels of gold to the temple at once was very generous.

"One hundred taels of gold is worth 80 renminbi. Now three shi grains are only worth a thousand renminbi. You donated 12 shi grains all at once. Calculated as two liters per mu of grain in the righteous warehouse, you donated [-] mu all at once. The amount of food in the righteous storehouse."

"My mother worships Buddha, the princess also worships Buddha, and my father also worships Buddha. Even the servants and maids in the family worship Buddha very much." Dou Lu Huairang could only explain in this way.

Grandma Doulu Huairang was Princess Changle of the Sui Dynasty and the younger sister of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty.His mother is the daughter of Sui Guan Wang Yang Xiong, the younger sister of former prime minister Yang Gongren, and now the older sister of Biejia Yang Shidao in Yongzhou.

His own wife is Li Shimin's younger sister, Princess Wanchun of the Tang Dynasty.

The three women in Doulu's family all worshiped Buddha very much.

In the past, he continued to donate to various temples in the capital, and the Doulu family was a well-known great benefactor.

This time, Zen Master Huiliao from Huadu Temple personally came to alms for alms. This is a personal disciple of the third-level leader Xinxing, and the Doulu family donated a hundred taels of gold without saying anything.

If it weren't for the fact that Huadu Temple only wanted gold this time, the Doulu family actually wanted to donate more money, silk, food, and even some slaves, cattle, horses, and fields.

This is outrageous, but also very common.

Let the noble families pay taxes and pay rent, they may think of various ways to escape, and they are always happy to let them give alms to Buddha or something.

The imperial court asked them to pay taxes, and they felt that the imperial court was plundering them, looting them, giving donations to temples, completely voluntarily, and even chasing them.

This is like Xiao Yu's ancestor, Emperor Wu of Liang Xiao Yan, publicly said that Lao Tzu, Zhou Gong, Confucius, etc. are all disciples of the Tathagata, and the evil deeds are only good in the world, and they cannot be transformed into saints, and they worship Buddha very much.

During his reign, he sacrificed his life to become a monk four times, and asked his officials to donate money each time. At first, he wanted to donate [-] million to the temple, and later he donated [-] million before he was willing to return to the palace.

One hundred million dollars is one hundred thousand coins.

Driven by him, the Southern Dynasties did not think about how the Northern Expedition regained the Central Plains to rule the world, but thought about building Buddhist temples, eating fast and praying to Buddha. There were 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and Nanliang Buddhism also reached the peak of Buddhism in the Southern Dynasties.

Since then, Emperor Wu of Chen and Emperor Chen Houzhu have followed suit and engaged in such things as sacrificing their lives in Buddhist temples.

The dignified son of heaven, sell yourself to the temple, give up 20 guan each time, and redeem [-] guan. If you have this money, give more to the frontline soldiers, improve the treatment of the soldiers, or build more ordnance .

The behavior of these people is sometimes puzzling.

It's like Xiao Yan once issued an edict, requiring the whole country to worship ancestors in ancestral temples, etc., and pigs, cattle and sheep are no longer allowed to be used, but vegetables must be used instead. Even gods must switch to vegetarianism in the future.

"Brother Dolu, do you believe in the future heaven of the Three Ranks, or the heaven on earth where Maitreya came into the world, or other Pure Land sects, Sanlun sects, Huayan sects, Tiantai sects, Vinaya sects, and Zen sects?"

Dou Lu Huairang smiled.

Although Emperor Wu of Wei and Emperor Wu of Zhou exterminated Buddhism, after the Sui ruled the world, they worshiped Buddhism vigorously, especially Yang Guang.

From court to folk, this atmosphere has always been strong.

However, although Doulu Huairang is also a great benefactor who often gives alms, he is different from someone like Xiao Yu who worships Buddhism. For example, Xiao Yu worships Buddhism. In fact, he has his own understanding of today's Confucian classics. He is more recognized and respected by a certain school. .

Xiao Yu used to perform disciple rituals to Xin, but now he has converted to Lotus Sect, also known as Pure Land Sect or Pure Land Sect. This is a sect passed down from Huiyuan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Zen master Daochuo has a very good relationship.

At this time, with the prosperity of translation of scriptures, many sects also emerged.

Although the Trinity Sect was once very prosperous under the leadership of Nobuyoshi, it was not in harmony with the traditional orthodox sect. The San Tier religion was once banned by the court in the last years of Kaihuang.

In the Dharma-ending era, Dharma and teaching are popularized, all living beings are Buddhas, and giving to all living beings.

In essence, the Three Tier Sect is dissatisfied with the society, even against the rulers of the court, against the orthodox Buddhism, and against all opponents. Even after Xinxing, the thinking of the Three Tier Sect becomes chaotic.

The imperial court once banned it, and other sects of Buddhism were regarded as heresies, but the third-order religion did not follow the usual path, and had strong strength and prestige.

It stands to reason that since Xiao Yu converted to the Pure Land Sect, he should also regard the third-order religion as a heresy, just like the Maitreya Sect has been suppressed by the court.

But this time Xiao Yu was running for the third-order sect, and even donated a hundred taels of gold.

In the final analysis, it was the actions of the imperial court that made them feel the danger. It was not only aimed at the third-order religion, but they felt that it was aimed at the whole of Buddhism.

The lips are dead and the teeth are cold.

They didn't want to protect the third-order religion, they just didn't want the imperial court to take the opportunity to wipe out Buddha.

"Have all the fields under the name of the third-order sect been cleared?"

Wu Huaiyu sold 1 monk certificates for [-] taels of gold, and was very satisfied. He didn't care too much about how the third-tier sect raised the money, anyway, some big bosses paid for it.

Just put the real money into the treasury.

This is equivalent to collecting land taxes on 200 million mu of land, and what bicycles are needed.

"It's almost out, but my uncle seems to be procrastinating on purpose and is not very active."

Don't drive Yang Shidao in Yongzhou, it's Dou Lu Huairang's own uncle. This guy has been meeting Wu Huaiyu frequently recently, and he always brings monks here. In fact, it is very clear which side his butt is sitting on.

Compared with Xiao Yu who converted to the Pure Land Sect halfway, Yang Shidao still believed in the third-order religion.

"Don't worry about him, you, the official of the inner road, are already responsible for registering the farmland. You use the clearing up of the farmland to prepare for the grain harvest. Your uncle has no reason to stop him. He can't control the Yongzhou Yamen. To you, the supporter of the inner way."

"There are more than a thousand monks in the third-tier sect who have a degree. Each of them will be given [-] mu of land, and about [-] mu will be reserved, and the rest will be collected."

"Some tenants and trilogy attached to the temples of the third-order religion are not happy, and they have been making troubles recently."

"What are you afraid of making troubles, explain to them clearly, no matter whether they were part of the temple or tenants, or what kind of power supply relationship, these people without household registration, the court is merciful, and now they are given a chance, as long as they register as householders. , then the imperial court will give them an equal amount of land, and the land they are planting now will have the opportunity to become their own land.
This opportunity is only once, if you miss it, it will be gone.

The land is limited, and the deadline is one month. Those who come to register for naturalization within the first ten days will be granted [-] acres of permanent land and [-] acres of land for adults. Ten acres of Yongye farmland.

If you come to register in the middle ten days, you can only be granted [-] mu of land, and middle-aged men will not be granted.

Those who come to register in the last ten days can only be granted [-] mu of land per person.

If no one came to register within the time limit, they would not be eligible to grant land. In the future, they would still be tenants, but they would plant official land and pay rent to the government instead. "

Don't look at those people who are making fun now, it's because they are planting the land of the temple, and they are deeply attached to the temple. Many people may even owe debts to the temple. They don't have their own household registration, so naturally they have to listen to the temple.

But Wu Huaiyu believes that as long as they are tempted by the land, they still know how to choose.

If you really have that kind of stubbornness, you don't need to pay attention to it, just make it your own.

Don't worry about those guys who used to surrender land and were willing to do trilogy for the temple. They don't care about the past. Now that you have honestly registered for naturalization, they will grant you land.

In Gyeonggi in the second year of Zhenguan, you can still be granted a hundred acres of land for one dynasties.

Such an opportunity now will never be met again.

Dou Lu Huairang said wretchedly, "This time the third-tier sect can collect a lot of land, even if we have to give some to the former temple's tribes, tenants, and pure people to naturalize and grant land, there is still a lot of surplus.

Have Erlang ever thought about how to arrange these lands? "

"If there is extra land, first make up for the public land that is lacking in the capital's various yamen, and then the employment land."

Dou Lu Huairang made a suggestion, "That is a bottomless pit, and there is not enough to fill it. I think we can use some of it to make up for it in public and employment fields, and then sell most of the rest. , the money from the sale of the land can just replenish the national treasury and prepare for the Turkic invasion in the next autumn."

Wu Huaiyu looked at this guy, he was eyeing these fertile fields in Gyeonggi.

"You want to buy?"

"Who doesn't want to buy it? This is the land in Chang'an, not the land in Shuofang or Lingnan. No matter how expensive it is, someone is willing to buy it. It's hard to get such a big piece of meat from the mouth of the third-level teacher. Who doesn't want to be moved."

"If we do this, the imperial court will eat meat, and the families of nobles and nobles will also drink some soup. In this way, everyone will be satisfied. If we continue to rectify the Buddhist temple next time, won't there be more people to support it."

Wu Huaiyu admired the second son Doulu very much. Although he would definitely shrink back every time he was in a war, he was very good at dealing with the world.

"Okay, you make a list for me,"

Gyeonggi fertile fields are absolutely high-quality assets, and there are too many people who want them, so they can't do public sales or auctions, so it's better to sell them.

All parties have taken care of it, and each company will give a subscription share. If you don't want it, you can not buy it or transfer it to others.

If you want to buy more, that's okay, no one will be offended anyway.

(End of this chapter)