Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 933 Return to the Origin
"Your Majesty, is it the recent rumors of banning Buddhism and Taoism?"

Luo Cheng smiled, "Those who are interested will deliberately spread rumors. I have never said that I want to ban Buddhism, nor have I thought about it, and I have no such plan. But you grew up in a temple, but you should have heard of Buddhism. There are also bad sheep in Taoism, such as the Maitreya religion in Buddhism, which has caused chaos several times, and in Taoism, there is also such a thing as Sun Enshi who served five buckets of rice and used his teachings to rebel in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. These people rely on Buddhism and Taoism, and have bad intentions. We have to guard against it."

Monk Xu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this. Although he has returned to vulgarity, Buddhism still holds a very important position in his heart, which is hard to let go, like blood.

"Excessive worship of Buddhism during the Sui and Yang Dynasties did lead to chaos and disorder in Buddhism. A large number of private temples were built. Many criminals and rogues pretended to be monks, doing illegal things, corrupting the atmosphere of Buddhism, and causing very bad influence. Therefore, the court , To introduce laws and regulations to manage, not to prohibit rumors."

The imperial court, Taoist, county, and county levels will all set up special monk and Taoist management agencies to be responsible for managing temples and monks and Taoism in the world. Therefore, all temples and temples in the world must be registered, and all monks and Taoism must also be registered and issued a genealogy.

"Temples with less than 20 people will live together, and temples with more than 20 people will be kept, but temples with more than 100 people will be divided. For the merged empty temples, they will be destroyed."

"All existing temples and temples must be registered, as well as existing monks and Taoists. They must also pass a special Buddhist and Taoist examination. To return to vulgarity."

In addition, the imperial court also issued a law, stipulating that the temples that violated the regulations that occupied good land and private land should be demolished. At the same time, specific standards were set for the decoration, utensils, and scale specifications of the temples, and those who violated the temples would be demolished , Banned, etc.

Specifically, it is stipulated that the temples are not allowed to erect bucket arches, paint beams and beams, and recast bronze statues, gild, paint, etc. in addition to the original ones.

There are Senglu Division and Daolu Division in the capital, and officials are sent to take charge of monk and Taoist affairs in the world.At the Dao level, there are the Senglu Bureau and the Daolu Bureau, at the county level, there are the Senglu Office and the Daolu Office, and at the county level, there are also the Senglu Office and the Daolu Office.

The monks and Taoists at all levels manage the yamen, and the chief officials are all officials appointed by the court, and a famous monk or Taoist will be selected from among the adjutants.

These monks and Taoist officials have no salary and salary, and have special official robes and seals, and their grades are visual products.

Monastic and Taoist yamen at all levels specialize in the management of Buddhist and Taoist affairs, such as the registration and management of temples, such as the management of monks and disciplines, the ordeal examination, and so on.

In addition, there is a special regulation that prohibits women from burning incense and worshiping Buddha in temples. Women are only allowed to go to nunneries and female Taoist temples. Offenders will be punished for burning incense. Expressed as pure atmosphere.

The size of the temples is also divided into three categories: large temples, middle temples, and small temples. The large temples have 100 to 50 people, the middle temples have 30 to [-] people, and the small temples have [-] to [-] people.

Every monastery must have monkhood strictly according to its own level, and must not exceed the quota. Only when there is a shortage, can it be shaved again, and it must be approved by the imperial court's monkhood yamen.

At the same time, the imperial court also stipulated that the temples in each county should also adopt the method of ten mutual guarantees, that is, ten monasteries of the same size are connected to each other and supervise each other, so as to prevent private ordained monks, private accommodation of prisoners, private lending and occupation of land, etc. Something illegal happens.

If one family breaks the law, the other families must report it. If one family finds out, the other nine families who did not report will also be punished.

And in each monastery, the law of sitting together is also the same, ten people in a company, supervise each other, no collusion with women, no resting spies, no shelter for thieves, robbers and criminals, no meat banquets, no gambling, no occupation of tenants and public property, no wandering around ········

Each monastic order is issued with an oil card, on which is written the age, appearance, and place of origin of the monk, and is inspected by officials from time to time.

As for the treatment of illegal monks, there are imprisonment, labor reform, deprivation of genealogy, exile into the army, and so on.

"There is no place outside the law in the Great Qin Dynasty, and there are no people outside the jurisdiction, and Buddhist and Taoist temples are no exception."

All these laws and regulations have only one purpose, management, and the ultimate purpose of management is to bring Buddhism back to its original origin. You can worship Buddhism, as long as you persuade people to be good and not to promote evil. As for other things, you should not mix them with.

"Each monk's Taoist land quota is ten mu. If it is insufficient, it will not be increased, and if it exceeds it, it will be taken back. If the monastery produces tenants and rents seeds to the people, the land will be directly taken back and awarded to the people."

This is the most ruthless one. Monks and Taoists in temples are allowed to own land, but they can only have a maximum of ten acres per person, and they are not allowed to rent or rent.

According to such new regulations, Shaolin Temple has hundreds of monks, and they also have a large number of slaves, also known as Jingren. There are thousands of Shaolin Jingmen, all of whom are slaves in the temple, doing some farming and cleaning.

They have more than 3 mu of land, and a large amount of monastery property for lending, and they have a special warehouse for mortgage lending.

"Because of Shaolin's meritorious service, I plan to retain a hundred monks in Songshan Shaolin, and let the rest of the monks build new temples in border areas to encourage goodness and proclaim benevolence."

The Shaolin Temple in Songshan gave them [-] monks, which is the maximum number of monks in the big temple. The hundreds of monks who exceeded the limit were arranged to build new temples in North Korea, Beyond the Great Wall, Yunnan, Qinghai and other places. After all, these frontier places , New immigrants also have religious needs, and temples and temples can sometimes give these immigrants psychological comfort, which still has a lot of effects.

Of course, the hundreds of monks in Shaolin Temple will also be assessed.

There are some who don’t understand the meaning of Buddhist scriptures at all, and these people should be persuaded to return to the vulgar, and the pure people in their temples, that is, all the temple slaves in the temple, should be released and returned to good.

Of the tens of thousands of mu of land in the temple, one thousand mu was reserved for the temple, and the rest was taken back to the court.Of course, what the imperial court said publicly was to replace them with border areas to build branch temples and buy new temple fields.

Of course, even if only [-] mu of land is reserved, there are still two taxes to be paid. The same rent is collected per mu at the same rate, and the monastery also collects household taxes based on the size of the property in the monastery.

Monk Xu was in a daze.

These new laws and regulations are simply too strict.

Although they are not as bright as Wang Shichong, they cast curses on them one after another.

"Buddhist temples and Taoist temples should return to their origin, and monks and Taoists should also return to their faith. Secular matters should be left to the court!"

With Luo Cheng's words, Xu Heshang didn't know how to defend himself.

"Monk Xu, you are an official of the imperial court now, but you are also from Shaolin, so this time the imperial court asked you to bring the decree officer back to Shaolin to help read out the new regulations and explain them clearly to the abbots and elders in the temple."

　I'm not in good health recently, causing my brain to be muddled, and I'm not in a state, I can't write anything, and the updates have decreased, please forgive me!

　　
　
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