Li Chao's two methods can increase the court's income by one million a year. If the international trade is operated well, it will be more in a few years.

This far exceeded Li Shimin's expectations. After all, he originally wanted only one million chunks of money to support the Northern Yaman, and the prime ministers were willing to give him 500,000, but he was only half a million away.

But no one thinks that there is too much money.

The emperor also doesn't mind the money.

If you have 500,000 guan, you can do something worth 500,000 guan. If you have 1 million, you can do something worth 1 million. If you have more money, you can do more things.

"Wen Yuan, what is the third method?"

Li Chaomin is very much looking forward to the fact that the two methods can increase their income by one million, so the third method is definitely better.

"Your Majesty, this third method can immediately make the court obtain more than 30 million chunks of wealth, tens of millions of mu of land, and nearly tens of millions of new population!"

As soon as Li Chao said, the emperor and the prime minister looked different in the Political Affairs Hall.

They suddenly knew what the third method Li Chao said was.

Destroy Buddha!

Li Chao had already written a letter to Wanyan before, but after Li Shimin had read it, he only gave it to the prime ministers and did not show it to other officials. This matter was discussed by the top level.

However, before Xuanwu Gate, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan and Pei Jifeng Yi and other prime ministers had reached an agreement to destroy Buddhism. Among the people who agreed in the political affairs hall at that time, there were still several in today's political affairs hall. Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Yang Gongren and others had agreed.

What can make Li Yuan and his ministers reach an unanimous attitude towards destroying Buddha does not mean that there are any wrong things in Buddhism. The teachings of primitive Buddhism are to guide people to be good, and to make people practice and become Buddhas. Buddhism is relatively gentle. Although Maitreya Buddhism is also evil, and rebellion in troubled times, it is a minority after all.

For the court, the people believe in Buddhism is not a bad thing.

It is not a bad thing for monks to recite scriptures and worship Buddha and idols.

But the bad is that the scale is out of control, which has seriously affected the court.

There were even many emperors in history who worshipped Buddhism, such as Emperor Wu of Nanliang, who became monks and even asked the dynasty to pay huge sums of money to redeem him from the temple, and then again not long afterwards, and large-scale investment in building the temple, etc.

As a result, poems like the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasty were left behind, and Liang soon became the country.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the court continued to destroy the rebel kings and gradually unify the world. However, Li Yuan found that his Tang Dynasty had very few household registrations.

The nearly nine million households in the Sui Dynasty, with a population of about 50 million, were left. When he unified the world, there were only three million households, more than 15 million people, and only more than 2 million were left.

This registered population is only one-third of that of the Sui Dynasty.

But the Sui Dynasty had only been in the tenth year of chaos.

It is impossible that so many people have died.

Where did the person go?

Escape, hide.

The imperial court imposed equalization of land, causing many fugitives to return to their hometowns or settle down on the spot, but there were still many hidden households.

He was hidden by the noble family and hidden by the monks in the temple.

Li Yuan did not have the ability to fight directly against the powerful people of the aristocratic family, so he had to attack the monks.

Who made them so fat?

Li Yuan had found out that the power of Taoism was far less than that of Buddhism. There were more than 40,000 temples and nuns in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, and hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns. However, the fields they occupied and the hidden population were extremely amazing.

By suppressing Buddhism, Li Tang could immediately have a fat year and even grow stronger.

It was just that the Xuanwu Gate incident of Li Shimin stopped this matter. After Li Shimin came to power, he considered the factors that were not correct in his position and thought about stability, so he paused the matter.

And now, Li Chao has proposed it again.

"More than 40,000 Buddhist temples, nearly one million monks and nuns, no less than tens of millions of hidden households hiding under the temple, tens of millions of acres of land, and tens of millions of temple property. Your Majesty, Buddhism has no control, and is like a huge cancer, deeply endangering the Tang Dynasty. It must be managed!"

Li Shimin was also constantly chanting the numbers in his heart.

My breathing is a little bit short.

He was still fighting for one million guan and the prime ministers, and was unable to resettle the Northern Imperial Army for two million acres of land, but the monks occupied so much land, concealed so much population, and possessed so much property.

He knew that in fact, the wealthy families had more land, more people were hidden, and more property, but that one could not move.

But these monks and nuns were able to move.

These people do not pay taxes, serve, serve their parents, do not loyal to the king, do not have children, and do not even work. Apart from chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha, they are just enjoying their achievements. They build a large number of temples, shaping countless golden statues, and constantly absorbing the money of the people. In turn, they use the indulgence and oil money of these believers to borrow and buy land

As Li Chao said, it doesn’t matter.

Li Shimin was very scruples at the beginning. After all, there were many people who believed in Buddhism and the Buddhists were also very powerful. Especially when the palace was transformed into a palace, the world was not stable. If the Buddha was destroyed, someone would definitely take the opportunity to cause trouble.

But now.

Li Shimin felt that the world was still very stable.

Should this matter be brought to the stage?

"Wen Yuan, tell me what you think."

Although I have made a decision in my mind, this matter is quite a bit serious. If you really want to operate it, you must be careful and careful. If you don’t plan and do it hastily, the consequences will be unpredictable.

"Your Majesty, it is actually very simple. All the world is the king's land, the guest of the land, and the ministers. Buddhist monks must first be the people of the Tang Dynasty, and then the disciples of the Buddhists. They must first abide by the laws of the Tang Dynasty and then practice Buddhist scriptures. This cannot be reversed."

"Just one edict is required to reserve one temple and one temple in every county in the world, and one temple can be retained in each state, and three temples and three temples can be retained in the capital, and all the temples and temples will be banned."

Li Yuan’s original plan was to leave one temple in each state and three temples in the capital. The intensity was much greater than that of Li Chao.

There are more than 1,000 counties and more than 300 prefectures in the world. According to Li Chao's method, more than 1,300 temples and temples will be retained in the end.

“Will there be too many?”

"Does Your Majesty keep too much or withdraw too much?" Li Chao asked.

Li Shimin said very directly, "I feel like I have kept too much."

"Your Majesty, the doctrine of the mean is not to go to extremes. Buddhism has lost control and is too favored, which seriously affects the national economy and people's livelihood. We have to ban and control it, but it does not mean that it will be completely extinct. After all, Buddhism has been introduced to Middle-earth from the Han Dynasty for thousands of years. People believe in Buddhism a lot, and forcibly ban it is not realistic. What we need to do is control, not completely eradicate. As long as they are within the control of the court and the scale is within the permit, it will be enough."

"More than a thousand are still many." Li Shimin was thinking about how much of his population and land was occupied by this thousand income.

"We don't care about the temples and temples that have been retained. We need to adopt multiple steps to strengthen control. For example, we need to further stipulate that the temples and temples retained in each county will be limited to less than ten people. The temples and temples and temples in the state will be limited to twenty people. The temples and temples and temples in the capital will be limited to less than fifty people."

Not only do you need a limit, but you also need to add other restrictions.

For example, every monk and nun must pass the imperial examination, use Buddhist scriptures and court laws to do the test questions. In the end, the candidates who decide to stay, those who fail to pass the examination must return to secular life, be forced to marry by the government, and then they will be given land. If there is no land in the Central Plains, they will be moved to the frontier to cultivate land and reclaim land, becoming a taxpayer.

Those who pass the exam must also be issued by the imperial court, and they must have a license and certificate of becoming a monk. This certificate must be charged, and a copy of the diary will be sold for at least ten cents of money. In this way, more than 1,300 temples, temples, and about 30,000 monks and nuns will be retained nationwide, and they will have to pay 300,000 yuan of diary money to the imperial court.

Moreover, this disc must be reviewed annually and must be paid at least a certain amount of money every year.

If you don’t pay the money and you can’t pass the annual review, the disc will be invalid. If you re-issue, you have to pass the exam first, you have to pay ten coins, and you have to have a quota.

The quota is strictly limited, only a small amount cannot be exceeded.

Only by freeing a position can one be added.

"Ten Guan and one disc, one review once a year, one penny of money once a year?"

Xiao Yu was shocked by Li Chao's unethical idea.

"The quantity is strictly limited, only a small amount is not allowed to exceed it? Only one empty can be filled?"

Chen Shuda also stroked his beard and was amazed.

"Just selling dials can charge more than 300,000 yuan in one go, and a yearly annual review will also charge more than 30,000 yuan." Fang Xuanling was all amazed.

In the past, there were actually charges for the DVDs, which was a special tax, but it was not as open and priced as Li Chao made.

"Also, the industry of each reserved temple must be strictly limited. According to the number of monks and nuns in the temple, the court will give them land. Each person will be given 50 acres of land. Of course, if the land has reached the amount of land, it will no longer be given."

"If the land grant limit exceeds the land grant, the excess land must be taken back by the court. The land granted can be cultivated by oneself or rented, but the rent must be paid according to the rent system. Monks can be exempted from labor and military service, but they must pay the exemption of service."

One person has a limited land limit of 50 mu, and the more than 30,000 monks and nuns who have been retained nationwide can only retain more than 1.5 million mu of land. According to what Li Shimin knows, there must be tens of millions of mu of temple fields across the country.

This move was the one that Li Shimin was most satisfied with.

If you give a land, you will have to collect it if you exceed the land.

Although this is a bit of a robbery, no one wants you to pay taxes in the past.

"This is good, I support this very much. The monks and nuns chant scriptures and sing Buddhist scriptures all day long, and they don't do anything to produce. It would be nice to give them fifty acres of land."

"Your Majesty, you should also prohibit the use of copper to cast Buddha statues in Tianxia Temples and temples. Copper should be listed as national strategic materials. You should worship statues and worship them. Mud-tied puppets are fine, and copper and gold are prohibited."

As for the existing bronze statues and those posted by scriptures, of course they must be destroyed according to regulations.

Those banned temples and temples should also be changed to other people's use, and if they are useless, they should be demolished.

For the wild monks who had no dice, they would catch one when they found one, and if they caught one, they would go to the border to work in the military farm.

You must not be abusive to these people.

"It is also necessary to explicitly stipulate that temples and nunnies are prohibited from opening treasurys and lending. If mortgages are accepted and loaned in violation of regulations, the court will severely ban them, confiscate property, and impose a fine."

Buddhism can expand rapidly and revive again and again. The most important thing is in addition to the support from the upper class, the strength of their temple economy.

It has large areas of land and has great working capital.

Use the tenant of the land to rent grain and the incense money tributed by believers to lend money. In this era, lending and borrowing is actually a business with extremely high profits, with a huge profit.

It is precisely this that the monks are so rich, if they are powerful.
Chapter completed!