Chapter 1008: Rich as a Country

Chapter 1008: Rich as a Country

In mid-June, the noisy debate on Buddhism and Taoism finally came to an end. Compared with the high expectations at the beginning, the ending seemed a bit anticlimactic, and even the winner of the debate was not clearly announced.

But soon the people were no longer curious about the outcome, because what happened next was even more exciting.

The eminent monks felt that the ascetics harbored dirt and dirt, so they reported to the court, hoping that the court could eliminate the ascetics and promote Buddhism and protect the Dharma. The court also responded to this call and soon promulgated the "Sacrificial Ministry of Dharma Protector Style", which thoroughly Investigate the lawlessness of monks in all states and counties in the world, severely punish evil spirits, and promote the righteous Dharma!

Starting from late June and continuing throughout July, the campaign to promote Buddhism and protect Dharma was also carried out in an all-round way, and achieved very fruitful results.

Compared with the same period in history, the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty today is wider, and the actual scope of control is even wider than that of the Northern Zhou Dynasty before the unification of the north. In addition to the original territory of the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasties, there is also the area west of Hengjiang River. Huaixi region, as well as large areas such as Yingzhou and Xiangzhou to the west of Jiangzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

However, in this operation to eliminate Salmonella, Shannan, Shuzhong and Huaixi were not included in the scope. The focus was still on the Guanlong area west of Tongguan.

Since this area was the traditional sphere of influence controlled by the Western Wei Dynasty for many years, Li Tai also had a stable situation after taking office. Therefore, more than a month was enough to screen the Salmon personnel in the area.

After this screening, it was found that there were nearly 7,000 temples and nunneries of various sizes in the Guanzhong and Longyou areas. Although this number was still lower than that in the heyday of Buddhism in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty itself had a weak foundation and poor population. Although there are few, it still has such a scale. In terms of the proportion of social resources involved, it is not much lower than that of Northern Qi.

Among them, although Longyou's geographical area and population are far smaller than Guanzhong, the number of temples it has is almost equal to that of Guanzhong. This is in line with the trajectory of Buddhism spreading eastward and Longyou becoming prosperous.

There were nearly 7,000 temples. After a thorough investigation, more than 3,200 were finally preserved. More than half of the temples were dismantled and were not allowed to engage in related religious activities.

This kind of elimination is not small, and it has also caused a lot of turmoil. However, for ordinary people, the so-called turmoil is more of a psychological shock, and there are very few situations that can further develop into turmoil.

This is because while the government is dismantling these temples, there are still a group of monks who are not only enthusiastically cooperating, but are also actively appeasing the public sentiment in order to seize the faith market that has been released after this shuffle.

These temples that have been preserved are naturally willing to cooperate with the government's regulations and rectifications, or they are private temples that are determined not to be operated for the purpose of attracting believers and making profits.

After a special operation that lasted for more than a month, in addition to purifying the religious environment, other benefits can also be described as amazing.

First of all, the first item is the population released from the temple. The monks, novices in the temple, plus the temple slaves, monks, etc., men, women, old and young, have fully expanded the population to more than 300,000! Calculating the more than 3,000 temples that were dismantled alone, each temple had to shelter nearly a hundred people from government control. If there are five people per household, then there are a total of 60,000 households. This is nothing more than this for a large state with a large number of households!

But this is only a part of the Guanlong temple. The remaining part includes many large temples in various states and counties that have not been affected, and the population they shelter may be several times the number that has been detected. In other words, the number of people sheltered by Samanas in the Guanlong area alone reaches at least one million!

This number is absolutely shocking. It should be noted that in the 13th year of the reign of Emperor Tatong, the population of all prefectures and counties in the world was only 700,000.

Of course, in the thirteenth year of Datong, the territory of the Western Wei Dynasty was still very limited. Large areas of Hanzhong, Shuzhong and Shannan were not yet under the control of the Western Wei Dynasty, but its territory was exactly the same as the temples currently screened by the Bafu.

In other words, within this area, under the nose of Yuwentai, the leader of the Bafu, the Shaman monks sheltered a population of more than 200,000 households, accounting for almost one-third of the population controlled by the Bafu. one! To say that Buddhas are so rich that they can rival the country is really not an excuse.

The Buddhist population figures in the Western Wei Dynasty were already very exaggerated, and after the operation of Gaoyang Hui Dao to spread Buddhism in the Northern Qi Dynasty, the figures were even more exaggerated. It is said that there were more than 40,000 Buddhist temples in the Northern Qi Dynasty and more than 3 million monks and nuns. Moreover, the monks and nuns only refer to the group of monks and nuns in the temples. Temple slaves, monks, donors, etc. are not included in this list. .

This data is exaggerated and somewhat unbelievable, but it can be considered to reflect the vigorous development of Samana in Northern Qi to a certain extent.

Just talking about the population confiscated from temples in the Western Wei Dynasty, even if only one-tenth of them were working people in the prime of life, it would be enough to maintain the farming production of the Hussar Prefecture and solve the labor shortage dilemma of various prefectures.

The heads of the Hussar Mansion may not know that this special operation is to solve their labor shortage, but they have also heard that the government has acquired such a large number of people, so they all rushed to the Ba Mansion and repeatedly begged Tang Gong for help. They allocate population to the Hussar government.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is coming, if there is not enough labor force, let alone those soldiers, I am afraid that even they, the generals, will have to disarm and return to the fields to participate in the autumn harvest in order to compete for farming time.

Among all the military palace masters, Shuofeng was the most well-informed. He came to the prime minister's palace in the imperial city early with his bedding, and did not intend to leave until he asked for the servant.

Naturally, Li Taifeng didn't inform him of Shuofeng's arrival. Since he put this boy in this position to train him based on his abilities, he naturally wouldn't pay any extra attention to him. The person who really reported the news was his father-in-law Li Gang, who served as the governor of Qizhou. Li Gang wanted to take care of his prospective son-in-law. The monks and temple slaves in Qizhou were lured away from his territory, and he sent people to Xianyang to inform several phoenixes to hurry to the prime minister. The government went to ask for someone.

After seeing this, other palace masters such as Liang Shiyan and Li Yantou also followed suit and directly set up stalls and paved floors in the Prime Minister's Palace. In short, it is a situation where there are more wolves and less meat. Only children who can cry will have milk. Whichever military government takes the first step can be more calm.

"Fortunately, I have been favored by the Lord and chosen to leave the army. I have been thinking about it all night long and hope that I can serve and meritorious service! But now the army is so weak that everything is in ruins. Although I do not hesitate to work, I still look down upon it." The work can only be used by a small person, and the benefit is very small. How can the favor, food and salary be used by a small servant? Every time I think about the situation, I feel ashamed and want to die. I beg the Lord to give me some help to save me. On the verge of death!"

In order to get the assigned labor service first, these palace masters did everything possible. Wiping tears and complaining has become a basic operation, and their sense of shame is even stronger than ever before.

The snatching of personnel was only the military government's involvement, while the allocation of resources in other aspects attracted more attention from Cao's department.

Since Li Tai entered the customs a year ago, he has gone through a period of hard life, but with this sweep, it can be said that he has completely stood up again! With the property of more than 3,000 temples and the materials accumulated in the temples, this wave of windfall wealth even far exceeded the Nanliang treasury that was swallowed up in the Battle of Jiangling!

After all, although the Nanliang treasury also has a large inventory, it is not easy to realize the various treasures and treasures seized, and it is difficult to put them directly into production and life. They are like useless and waste storage and personnel costs. In addition to catching a Turkic Khan, Other practical uses are not too big.

However, the collections of these temples are really for emergencies. Most of them are items that can be directly used and circulated, especially grains. The total amount of all kinds of grains, millets and rice is more than nine million stones. ! Even Li Tai, the grain king of Guanzhong back then, really knelt before the Buddhas when he saw this number!

A considerable part of such a large amount of food is produced by the temple itself. After all, temples often have large areas of cultivated land and temple slaves work hard. The temple itself does not bear the land rent and taxes. All the food harvested except for Apart from the consumption of the temple itself, everything else can be accumulated.

At the same time, due to successive bumper harvests in Guanzhong, many households also have a surplus of food, so they often choose to donate the food in the hope of accumulating blessings, and the temples are also happy to accept such offerings.

For example, last year when Li Tai was at Guangming Temple in Longyou, monk Tan Jing asked Li Tai for three liters of millet after giving a sermon. As a result, he and the entire temple were given to Li Tai.

The accumulation of various conditions resulted in the temple's abundant food reserves. Now that Li Tai directly raided the nest of this nest of rats, the harvest was naturally extremely rich. And when he thought that he still had more than 3,000 such blood packs, Li Tai couldn't help but get even more excited!

Since these confiscated and closed temples were widely distributed between Guanlong and Guanlong, the assets of these temples became the material basis for the next step to continue to promote the transfer of land to the soldiers.

Of course, with the previous experience of various difficulties in the Hussar Mansion, Li Tai would not be overly optimistic and blindly expand the scale of land conferment for soldiers and farmers. After all, land conferment is not the purpose. The real purpose is to create a system where soldiers and farmers are integrated and farmers can be cultivated. A situation of fighting. Therefore, in addition to land assets and material reserves, manpower must also be reserved.

With the big rockets from the Buddha veterans, Li Tai felt refreshed and refreshed as never before. His original idea of ​​recuperating for a while and engaging in internal affairs after the attack on the Turks changed a little: I have 900 With tens of thousands of stones of grain, what else do you have to be afraid of? Just find the target and do it!