The first assistant of the poor family

Chapter 448
Xie Shen waved his hand, signaling the butler to step back first.

"I don't know why you are here?"

Although Xie Shen's voice was calm, it revealed an aura unique to those in high positions.

The leader snorted coldly and said: "This house is owned by Tanzhe Temple. Now that the lease term has expired, we want to take it back. It looks like you sublet it from that Chen Xiucai. That's good, give You have three days to quickly move out of the house."

Xie Shen couldn't help frowning.Are these people from Tanzhe Temple?

It can be seen that their clothes and dresses do not look like Buddhists at all. Could it be that Tanzhe Temple has also begun to accept disciples of laymen?
Just as he was thinking to himself, the leader was a little impatient.

"Why, you don't agree?"

After finishing speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to ask questions.

The two guards of Xie's house immediately stepped forward, and the guards were around Xie Shen, ready to protect their master's safety at any time.

"You say this house belongs to your temple, do you have evidence?"

Xie Shen couldn't help feeling a little overwhelmed. There were nearly ten thousand Buddhist temples in the Ming Dynasty, and it is conservatively estimated that there were hundreds of Buddhist temples in the capital.

These temples have a lot of land under their names.

This is also thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the 27th year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty once promulgated a regulation: "If you grant land, you will be exempted from taxes and grains; if you live in the land, even though there is a grain tax, you will still be exempt from miscellaneous servants."

It means that all the land given to the temple by the emperor is exempt from paying taxes. As for the permanent residence, it needs to pay taxes, but it does not need to participate in corvee.

Ordinary small temples generally only have resident fields.However, a thousand-year-old temple like Tanzhe Temple, which has a deep connection with the royal family, must have a lot of land bestowed by the emperor.

No wonder he only spent 500 taels of silver to buy this Yaju. It seems that there is a dispute over property rights.

Xie Shen reckoned that this house might really belong to Tanzhe Temple, otherwise the other party wouldn't have come to him.

It's just that he doesn't know whether the land occupied by this house is a land bestowed by the emperor or a permanent residence.

"Evidence? This is the deed!"

After finishing speaking, the flesh-faced man took out a title deed and waved it in front of Xie Shen.

It seems that this is well prepared.

Xie Shen couldn't help but feel a little confused, he had also seen the deed when he bought this house, why now Tanzhe Temple has also come up with a deed.

Could it be that the person who sold his house forged a deed in order to sell the house as soon as possible?
The fleshy man snorted and said, "Is the person who sold your house surnamed Chen?"

Xie Shen nodded: "Exactly."

"That's it. He rented this house from the monastery for a period of three years. Now that three years have passed, Master Huikong told me to take the house back."

This is too outrageous, right?He had only heard of the second landlord reselling the lease, but never heard of one that could be resold directly.

Thinking that Xie Shenyingming I was pecked by a sparrow in the end, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Xie Shen knew that most temples would rent out their excess land and properties for rent, and it seems that this is the case with Tanzhe Temple.

As for these people, it is estimated that they cooperated with Tanzhe Temple to collect rents. This kind of occupation was very common in the Ming Dynasty.

He smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that there is some misunderstanding. I don't know where Master Huikong is now, and I want to visit."

The rent-collecting man nodded and said, "You don't seem to be lying, so let's go with a certain family."

Xie Shen couldn't help but sighed.

The world is like this, it is true that disputes are unavoidable even in the deep mountains.

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As the abbot of Tanzhe Temple, Master Huikong is in charge of all important affairs of the temple.

This naturally includes the leasing of land bestowed by the emperor and commonly used land.

Therefore, there is no problem for Xie Shen to go directly to Master Huikong, but he waited for a while after entering the temple, because Master Huikong was sitting in meditation.

After Master Huikong finished his sitting meditation, Xie Shen was finally able to have a good chat with the helm of Tanzhe Temple.

Of course, Xie Shen didn't have any leisure time to discuss Buddhism with Master Huikong. He explained the purpose of coming straight to the point and asked about the solution.

Master Huikong was silent for a long time, clasped his hands together and said: "Amitabha, the little Tanyue is also responsible for this matter. How about this, the old monk gives two methods, and little Tanyue will see which one is acceptable."

After a short pause, Master Huikong continued: "The first way is that Bisi sublets that house to Xiao Tanyue, and the rent remains the same."

Xie Shen shook his head and said, "Mage, what about the second method?"

Master Huikong said in harmony: "The second way is for little Tanyue to buy this house and pay 1000 taels of silver."

Hiss, this old monk is really direct, he doesn't hide it at all.

1000 taels of silver is really nothing to Xie Shen, what he is concerned about is that a shameless tenant forged a land deed, which is really depressing.

However, this fault obviously should not be recorded on the head of Tanzhe Temple.

The other party's willingness to sell the house to him for 1000 taels of silver is already enough to save face.

"Okay, I'll choose the second option."

Master Huikong nodded and said: "The old monk saw that little Tanyue had a good face, so he gave this string of Buddhist beads to little Tanyue. I hope that little Tanyue can study Buddhism and cultivate his character."

Xie Shen thought to himself, is buying a house a value-added service?

"But the old monk also has something to ask for."

"Mage, please speak."

Xie Shen knew that the matter would not end so easily, so he asked patiently.

"Can little Tanyue agree to the old monk that the land under the jurisdiction of this monastery will not be included in the Qingzhang's land?"

Xie Shen's heart sank when he heard this.

The land system in the Ming Dynasty was extremely complicated, and there were many preferential and tax-free lands.

But generally speaking, it can be divided into three parts.One is the land under the name of a famous scholar-bureaucrat.This is the largest piece, and it is also the top priority of re-clearing the land.

The second is the Zhuangtian bestowed by the emperor.Zhuangtian can be divided into two types, one is Xungui Zhuangtian, which was bestowed the most during Zhu Yuanzhang's period.There was another small outbreak during the Xuanzong period of the Ming Dynasty.But right now the nobles are declining, and there are fewer and fewer noble estates, and the real thing that kills is the farmland of the Wangfu.

Daming's control over the vassal kings was extremely strict, and they were basically kept in captivity.

The vassal kings have no chance to display their ambitions, they can only eat and wait for dead children.

More and more children were born, and the number of clans of the Ming Dynasty exploded geometrically.

Every son of the clan receives a salary from birth, and the court is responsible for weddings and funerals.

The most important thing is that Wangfu Grange also enjoys preferential tax-free treatment.Such a heavy burden completely overwhelmed the court, and by the end of the Ming Dynasty, conflicts also broke out.But that's all for later, so I won't show it for the time being.

As for the third piece, it is the land under the name of the temple.To be precise, it is the part of the land bestowed by the emperor.

These three types of land are all tax-free, and the imperial court can greatly alleviate the conflict if the court eats a piece of land and distributes it equally to the people.

Xie Shen made the first move on the part of the scholar-officials, and the other two didn't think of a specific solution.

Unexpectedly, the abbot of Tanzhe Temple was so well-informed that he took the initiative to come to Xie Shen before he worked out the plan.

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