Man Tanghong

Li Yuanji agreed with Tang Jian's proposal.

Because Datang really can't let the vassals take advantage of it, and there is no need to give the vassals more benefits to show the generosity of Datang.

But Datang really can't make the envoys of various countries unprofitable, lose interest in Datang, and cut off contacts with Datang.

Datang is currently in the stage of looking around to its neighbors, and knows very little about its distant neighbors.

Once the contact with the distant neighbor is cut off, Datang will completely lose the opportunity to understand the distant neighbor.

When Datang completed the strategy of conquering the neighbors and stretched his neck to the distant neighbors, it would be too late to go to the distant neighbors.

And closing the door to the outside world is not a good policy.

This point was verified by the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, it is necessary to open the door, welcome Sifang, do business with Sifang people, communicate with Sifang, and understand Sifang.

Only in this way can we ensure that Datang has always been at the leading level in the world in all aspects, instead of being secretly left behind by the world.

Therefore, not only must the envoys of all parties find Datang attractive, but also businessmen, scholars, etc. from all parties must find Datang attractive.

Moreover, Datang has to increase communication with all parties, so that Tang people can go out and understand everything about all parties.

So Li Yuanji wrote a long, long passage in Tang Jian's Memorial.

In addition to agreeing with Tang Jian's proposal, the above also gave certain instructions to Tang Jian's future work.

Let Tang Jian expand the scale of Honglu Temple, let Tang Jian recruit officials who are adventurous and like to go on missions, follow the envoys of various countries, go on missions to various countries, and learn about the history and culture of various countries.

When necessary, they can even be stationed in various countries.

Although the trouble is a little more troublesome and the workload is a little bigger, it is not difficult for Tang Jian.

Li Yuanji believes that Tang Jian can do it, and Tang Jian also has people who like to take risks, like to wander around, and like to win a fortune through various dangers.

There are also many knight-errants in the Tang Dynasty wandering around the Tang Dynasty all day long, causing trouble everywhere.

Incorporating these people and letting them help Datang explore all the unknowns is considered waste utilization.

Li Shimin has done similar things in history, but instead of using these people to explore the unknown, he used them to manage the enemy.

And these people were also given a very wide name that was handed down in later generations.

Bad people.

Historically, bad people consisted of loafers wandering the streets, as well as hooligans and rangers.

The purpose of Li Shimin's recruitment of them is to control them well, to collect all these guys who are doing trouble everywhere, and then to control them with military law, which can not only restrain their behavior, but also eliminate harm for the people.

The second is to fight evil with evil. These people are the worst group of people in Datang. They know all the methods of bullying. If they are to deal with other bullies, they will be able to catch them easily.

According to historical records, after they were incorporated, they did achieve the two points Li Shimin wanted.

It's just that Li Yuanji's idea is different from Li Shimin's.

On the issue of governing the local area and maintaining local law and order, Li Yuanji has better candidates.

That is the soldier who retired from the army.

They are originally from the disciplined army, they know how to obey the discipline better than the bad guys, they are better educated than the bad guys, and they are more effective than the bad guys.

Some of them who have fought for more than ten years have become accustomed to fighting with others, and have already learned no other means of making a living.

Letting them go back to farm is really a bit of a waste. Letting them maintain local law and order is the best use of people.

The maintenance of local law and order is taken up by soldiers from the army, so the bad guys can only help Datang to explore the unknown.

If you let them eat and drink, let them go outside Datang to do their best, they will definitely scream with excitement.

After all, those who can be bad are either lazy or restless.

You let them keep their place, and they feel uncomfortable.

If you let them explore the unknown and do evil, they will scream excitedly.

There is no soil for them to do evil inside Datang, but it is all outside Datang.

However, Li Yuanji did not write this in Tang Jian's memorial, but just mentioned it to Tang Jian in a vague way, and he believed that Tang Jian could understand it.

After giving instructions to Tang Jian's memorials, Li Yuanji successively gave instructions to the memorials of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and other temples.

The memorials of other ministries and monasteries are similar with minor differences.

To sum it up in one sentence, that is 'Dad gives money'.

The amount required is not much, but the sum is more than double the tax of Datang last year.

Datang suddenly reached the situation of making ends meet.

Although this happened when Li Yuan was in power, it was definitely not such an exaggeration.

Li Yuanji is sure that this is definitely the work of Li Gang and Chen Shuda.

It must be that the two people saw that there was money in the treasury, and there was still a lot of money, so they thought about the money and started asking for money in different ways.

If Li Gang and Chen Shuda hadn't called the six books together to discuss before the performance, Li Yuanji would have dared to take his head off and give them a kick.

However, even after seeing through Li Gang and Chen Shuda's thoughts, Li Yuanji didn't say anything, let alone react.

He got so much money, isn't it just for Datang to use it for development.

If they are just piled up in the treasury and not spent, what are they for?

Anyway, money is endless in his eyes.

As long as he still has power in his hands, and as long as Datang's army listens to him, all the money in the world is his, and he can spend as much as he wants, and spend it as he wants.

Not enough, just send someone to fetch it.

Anyway, it's all his money, and he can withdraw it as he wants, spend it as he wants, without asking other people's opinions.

"Um?!"

After giving instructions to the memorials of various ministries and monasteries, Li Yuanji saw a unique memorial. The reason why it is unique is that it is different from other memorials in color and in different versions. The most important thing is , the content is not the same.

After opening it, Li Yuanji didn't know what to say.

In a section of the memorial, there is a line of big characters written brightly.

"On Buddhism Harms".

The content is to enumerate all the harms that have occurred after the appearance of the Buddha.

The ancestor of Xiao Yu's family who sold himself to the temple was pulled out again and whipped his corpse.

Li Yuanji knew who wrote this memorial without reading the end.

Except for Tai Shi Ling Fu Yi, no one is so persistent in Buddhism.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he has written a memorial requesting the destruction of Buddhism every year, which is unshakable.

You said that Buddhism has a grudge against him, but that's not true.

He came from a good family background and had never lived a hard life. He was a close minister of the former Sui and Han king Yang Liang when he became an official. If Yang Liang wanted to rebel, he had to ask him for good or bad luck.

After Yang Liang's defeat, not only was he not beheaded, but he was also exonerated and transferred to Fufeng.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was conscripted into Beijing, worshiped as the Taishi Cheng, and became the second in command of the Taishi Department. He talked about occupying the Marquis with Yu Zhi, the father of Yu Jian, who was the head of the Taishi Department at the time, and stabilized his head. The seat was given to him.

And during his tenure as Taishi Ling, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng had to stand aside obediently.

In terms of astronomy and calendar, he can be said to be No.1 in the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at his resume, he has no contact with Buddhism at all, let alone persecuting him, and has any enmity with him.

If you have to say that there is any grievance between him and Buddhism, it is the disagreement of belief.

He believes in Lao Zhuang, while Buddhism believes in Sakyamuni.

Taoism was also the state religion in the Tang Dynasty. As a leading figure in the state religion, it is reasonable to be hostile to other sects.

However, Li Yuanji also heard a saying that since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism flourished, temples spread all over the country, the number of monks and nuns increased day by day, and countless acres of land were occupied.

Fu Yi just couldn't understand this kind of situation, so after the Tang Dynasty established Taoism as the state religion, he repeatedly wrote to ask for the destruction of Buddhism.

At the beginning, Fu Yi's speech was not so fierce, and he didn't mention the extermination of Buddhism, only abolishing Buddhism.

After several times of ineffectiveness, Fu Yi's remarks became much more intense.

Li Yuanji could understand this.

If he talks to someone, even if the other party is indifferent after saying it two or three times, then his words will become very violent.

From a historical point of view, although Fu Yi did not succeed in eradicating Buddhism in the end, he also curbed the development momentum of Buddhism.

However, after Xuanzang made a trip to Tianzhu, Buddhism flourished again.

Li Yuanji felt that Fu Yisheng was wrong.

If he was born when Chai Rong was in power, he would definitely have a chance to get what he wanted.

It's a pity that he was born in the early Tang Dynasty.

Born at the weakest time in the history of the Central Plains, he was too weak to turn his back on Buddhism.

When he had the strength to turn against Buddhism, Xuanzang was born again.

Although Datang and Chai Zhou were both established in troubled times, the foundation of Datang is so thin that even Chai Zhou, which occupies a small part of the country, cannot compare.

Although the territory of Datang is larger than Chai Zhou, Dingkou of Datang is not as large as Chai Zhou.

At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, there were only about 150 million households in Dingkou, and the population was only over 700 million based on five persons per household.

And this is the population of the whole world (not counting hidden households and escaped households, there were also hidden households and escaped households during the Chai Zhou period).

At the beginning of Chai Zhou's establishment, there were tens of millions of people, and the population of the whole world reached more than 3000 million.

Although the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty was far less long than the chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the family background left by the Great Sui to the Tang Dynasty was far less thick than the family background left by the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

So Datang has enough territory to toss, but not enough population to toss.

Although Chai Zhou's territory is not large, it has enough people to make a fuss about.

If it is said that the early Tang Dynasty had the population of the early Chai and Zhou Dynasties, then the Tang Dynasty dared to challenge all forces.

In that case, Fu Yizuo asked Li Yuan to abolish Buddhism in order to get a response.

So, it wasn't that Li Yuan didn't want to abolish Buddhism, or that Li Yuan didn't want the Taoism of the Li family's ancestors to outshine others, but that in the early Tang Dynasty, he didn't have the capital to turn against Buddhism.

Because in the early days of the Tang Dynasty, not only foreign enemies but also internal thieves and wealthy families stood on the opposite side of the Tang Dynasty.

If there is another dispute with Buddhism, then Datang will not be able to take care of it.

In the early Tang Dynasty, there was never a shortage of internal thieves who dared to rebel.

For the stability of the Tang Dynasty, and also for the rule of the Li family, Li Yuan must maintain the stability of the Tang Dynasty as much as possible, instead of making enemies everywhere, especially enemies like Buddhism that you don't touch, and it doesn't touch you.