Lord Moyu was forced to open

How could Zhang He, who had been in the officialdom for many years, not realize that the officials who had been promoted just now were already His Majesty's men?

Pretending to be opposed before was just to prevent their promotion from being opposed by officials. Now that they are promoted, the power and voice of the entire group have been enhanced, and naturally they no longer pretend. This is how we are now. Appear.

Zhang He just didn't know when His Majesty began to secretly make arrangements and actually captured so many officials without him even knowing.

In this way, with His Majesty as the royal party, officials can no longer rely on their numerical superiority to coerce His Majesty.

It seems that things are about to change in this court.

Clutching his hands, Zhang He lowered his head and thought. He no longer cared about the changes in the court. Now His Majesty's situation has been established, and it is a foregone conclusion that Jiang He will take the lead in selecting new officials.

When new officials fill the vacancies of lower-level officials, with the support of this group of officials and the new officials, there will no longer be any force in the court that can oppose His Majesty.

His Majesty's power will directly crush the remaining officials.

This undoubtedly formed a new pattern in the court.

So, as the prime minister at the head of hundreds of officials, what should he do?

This made Zhang He fall into deep contemplation.

The opposition, which was already at a disadvantage, and the prime minister's sudden silence, put it even more at a disadvantage. Faced with the echoes of the Manchu Dynasty, they didn't know how to refute.

In the end, I could only watch helplessly as this matter, which was clearly intended to expand His Majesty's power, passed the court resolution.

Zhao Jun was undoubtedly happy when his goal was achieved, but he didn't show it.

In addition to letting Jiang He be responsible for recruiting new officials today, he also had to do one more thing.

That’s the National Temple Census!

Due to the special nature of Buddhist temples, Zhao Jun does not believe that the situation at Daxiangguo Temple is just an exception. It is more likely that it has not been exposed.

Moreover, the Daxiangguo Temple is located in a place like Bianjing where land is at a premium. The army actually collected the title deeds of 50,000 hectares of land in the Daxiangguo Temple. So in those areas where there is a lot of land, what kind of huge industry does the local Buddhist temple have?

For today's Song Dynasty, taxation is extremely important. It is impossible to let Yunzhou County support the entire Song Dynasty every year. Even if Yunzhou County is sold, it will not last for a few years.

In order to make Guannei self-reliant, the most important thing is to increase the tax revenue in Guannei.

Last year before the Huns invaded, the tax revenue of the Song Dynasty after the autumn harvest reached 200 million taels, which is equivalent to 20 million taels of silver. Seventy percent of this came from commercial taxes. The commercial taxes of the Song Dynasty were extremely huge, and the coastal sea trade It can bring huge benefits to the court every year.

In addition, land tax and other taxes only accounted for 30% of the Song Dynasty's tax revenue, of which land tax was only half of half!

What is this concept?

This means that the entire Song Dynasty, with thousands of miles of land and nearly 100,000 acres of cultivated land, only received a land tax of 5 million yuan!

First of all, we need to clarify a concept. Is five million dollars a lot?

Do not!

Normally, the court paid taxes twice a year, divided into summer tax and autumn tax.

Among them, silver is collected in summer and grain is collected in autumn.

However, for the convenience of transportation, many far away places will convert the grain harvested in autumn into money and transport it to Bianjing. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will eat up to 70% of the grain received just on the road.

Converting this, every acre of land will pay two taxes a year, of which at least 80% will be paid in the form of money, while the remaining 20% ​​is due to the court's demand for food, which must be paid in real grain. It was used by the imperial court to supply the army to store official warehouses and other places where food was necessary.

Eighty percent of the land tax is only 5 million in grain tax. What is the concept?

If all land taxes were converted into money, the annual land tax would only be about 6.25 million guan.

There were 100,000 acres of land in the Song Dynasty, and on average, only 6.25 pence was paid per acre per year!

is it possible? If the annual field tax per acre of land was only this amount, would the people of the Song Dynasty still have such a difficult life?

Isn’t this nonsense!

The fact is that of the 100,000 acres of land in the Song Dynasty, less than two-thirtieths were actually paid in taxes!

So where did the other 28/30 land taxes go?

The answer lies in the hands of those who have annexed the land, and they have used various methods to evade taxes, resulting in the fact that the annual field tax should have reached 160 million yuan in money, but they only received more than 6 million yuan!

The Song Dynasty’s current annual tax is only 200 million!

A full half is missing!

If this country hadn't had business tax and other taxes to cover it for so many years, it would have been over by land tax alone!

Emperor Zhu has something to say about this.

Zhao Jun didn't know how much of the temple's share it had taken in the past few years, but since there was such a rafter as the Daxiangguo Temple, why not take the opportunity to build up Buddhist temples across the country, increase the annual revenue for the court, and get back some land? Zhao Jun himself You will all feel sorry for yourself!

"Ahem! My dear friends!"

When Jiang He was almost leading the discussion among the lower-level officials, Zhao Jun suddenly coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention.

When the officials in the court looked over, they slowly spoke:

"Everyone, if I hadn't accidentally discovered the filth in the Daxiangguo Temple this time, I'm afraid that cancer like the Daxiangguo Temple would still have stayed in Bianjing and poisoned the people of the Song Dynasty one after another.

From this incident at Daxiangguo Temple, we can also see that the so-called Buddhist saying of laying down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha immediately and the convenience created by it are a good excuse and excuse for those who break the law to escape guilt. method.

As long as you find a monastery and become a monk, all your past sins can be wiped out like smoke in the past.

Such an approach is so unfair and ironic to the victims. The evildoers do not receive evil retribution but can gain merit. Isn't this a reversal of heavenly principles and ethics?

In addition, temples absorb fireworks from all directions, and clean temples are often contaminated by gold, silver, and copper, which causes the monks to have impure six roots and lustful thoughts. In addition, unscrupulous monks use this to make a lot of money, commit unjust things, and annex The common people's land has caused countless people to lose the foundation for their livelihood.

Each of these has fully demonstrated that the temples in the world have reached the point where the imperial court has to control them. If we continue to let them go like this, the foundation of the Song Dynasty will be unstable!

Therefore, in order to eliminate this problem, I have decided to universalize Buddhist temples all over the world from now on!

The identities of all the monks in the temple will be checked. Anyone who has been convicted of a crime will not be exempted from punishment as a monk. All of them should be arrested and brought to justice, and all ultimatums will be eliminated.

From now on, the number of monks in each temple is not allowed to increase, and the imperial court will no longer issue ultimatums. After the court determines the number of monks in the world, it will determine whether to continue to issue ultimatums based on the size of the city where the temple is located and the population.

Taking Fucheng as an example, each county capital is only allowed to have one temple with no more than 200 people, and a county with more than 50,000 people is only allowed to have one temple with no more than 100 people.

As for counties and towns with insufficient number of people, only one temple with no more than fifty people is allowed to exist in one place.

And from now on, any temple with more than 100 people shall not occupy more than ten hectares of land, no temple with more than 50 people may occupy more than seven hectares of land, and no temple with more than 50 people may occupy more than five hectares of land!

All monasteries exceeding the local quota will be banned, all monks exceeding the number will return to secular life, and all land exceeding the quota will be nationalized!

Anyone who dares to resist will be killed!

From today onwards, restrictions on temples all over the world should be made a national policy.

Those who violate national policy! kill!

Kill until no one dares to resist anymore!

In addition, starting from today, all those who want to be ordained must pass the imperial examination before they can be ordained, otherwise they will not be issued an ultimatum! You are not allowed to dress up as a monk, and those who dress up as a monk without restraint will be treated as thieves! "

...(End of chapter)