Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 557 The Buddha also has to pay taxes to Daming!
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Huang Liji showed a surprised expression on his face: "Your Majesty, do you want to continue the investigation?"

"Of course, I, why don't you investigate? I, not only want to investigate, but also investigate with great fanfare!" Zhu Youxiao said slowly: "A Tanzhe Temple can collude with a cult, so what about other temples?"

When Zhu Youxiao said this, he said with a broken heart: "I am also for the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, for the country of the Ming Dynasty, and for the common people of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Think about it, as long as there is a temple like Tanzhe Temple, the scourge will be at least a thousand people in Ming Dynasty. If it is a hundred, it will be a hundred thousand. If it is a thousand, it will be a million people. Millions!"

Huang Liji doesn't want to talk to Zhu Youxiao now.

This guy can't say anything serious.

And a fucking million?

How could he say such a thing?
Zhu Youxiao said slowly: "I think these monks earn a little too much. They are monks who pay attention to the four things. How can they ask for so much money?"

"Your Majesty!" Huang Liji couldn't help but said, "What does your Majesty mean?"

Zhu Youxiao smiled, and said slowly: "During this period of time, I still calculated an account, take Tanzhe Temple as an example, if I want to visit Tanzhe Temple, only last year, the number of pilgrims received There are nearly 100 million people to count, and the ticket price is 100 yuan, and the annual income is 1 million, which is a net income of [-] million!"

Having said that, Zhu Youxiao looked at Lu Xiangsheng and asked, "Lu Xiangsheng, have they paid taxes?"

Lu Xiangsheng was stunned, and then couldn't help saying: "No!"

"That's right, why doesn't he pay taxes?" Zhu Youxiao said plausibly: "Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty is in a difficult situation, and there are places where people want to spend money everywhere. Why don't they pay taxes?"

Lu Xiangsheng: "..."

It would not be a big problem to talk about this in the second year of Tianqi, but the problem is, it is now eight years, six years since Tianqi, how much money did Zhang Haogu get Daming?

At least, when I first came to the household department, the household department was still poor, and it would be a miracle to be able to come up with 100 million silver, but now, there is no need for silver, and the infrastructure alone is worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Treasure notes.

Zhu Youxiao continued: "This person goes to the temple, on the one hand, for sightseeing, and more importantly, to burn incense to the gods and Buddhas, and thank the gods for their blessings. Many devout believers will invest a certain amount of incense according to their economic conditions. money."

"There are people who burn incense for high school, and there are people who burn incense for children. It's all right for this person to pray for good fortune and worship Buddha. However, some temples have also taken advantage of this mentality and started to use "burning high incense", "" "Grabbing incense" as a selling point, encouraging "the amount of incense money can measure piety or not", you say, is this absurd?"

"I've heard that last year, the right to buy the first incense in Tanzhe Temple was auctioned off at a high price of 6.6 yuan. Last year, it was sold at a sky-high price of 32 yuan. With these sky-high prices for incense, many temples can earn a lot of money in a year." Tens of millions, even hundreds of millions."

A group of people are silent.

Obviously, during this period of time, Zhu Youxiao has investigated clearly, and it is not an easy thing to fool Zhu Youxiao.

"This person likes to make friends with the rich and powerful, likes to buy property, even being a local landlord and lending usury is not a problem."

Zhu Youxiao smiled, and slowly said: "This Buddhist school has never been cut off from the secular world. In the Yuan Dynasty, the monks' lofty status was legally determined. If you beat a monk, you must cut off your hand." To scold monks, you have to pull out your tongue. My Emperor Taizu himself was a monk, and he knew them well. Monks are forbidden to travel outside, and to communicate and collude with the government. Unless you ask about it, Zen and monks are not allowed to go out of the temple casually. You can live scattered and enter villages, and you must keep a distance from daily society.”

"But what about now? Didn't this group of monks continue to come out? Didn't they continue to author this kind of work? I, I want to ask you, do the current monks still abide by my Ming rules?"

Zhu Youxiao glanced at everyone, and continued: "I don't have to restore the standards of the Taizu period, or allow them to go out of the temple at will, but, I will definitely not allow them to continue to harm the people. Most of the "monks" "In fact, they are all ordinary people. Even if they become monks, they still have emotions and desires. This is also very normal. If everyone becomes a Buddha, even if they become a Buddha, they will still have to bribe the Tathagata to learn Buddhist scriptures from the Western Paradise. How expensive is a broken scripture?"

Huang Liji was speechless.

Zhu Youxiao said: "Just because they are monks, you can't relax the necessary supervision on them, Lu Xiangsheng!"

Lu Xiangsheng got up hastily: "Your Majesty!"

"You come to draw up a charter!" Zhu Youxiao thought for a while, and then slowly said: "I want to collect taxes on Buddhism. They have made so much money, but they still don't pay taxes to the court. It's wrong, monks and the others. There will be no power over ordinary people in the future, otherwise they will not even talk about doing business, and even usury will be released every minute by evil monks."

"The emperor is wise!" Zhang Haogu smiled and said, "I just don't know how to collect this tax?"

Zhu Youxiao thought for a while and said: "These monks don't do production, how about the tickets for entry and exit, incense money, I, how about [-]%?"

Zhang Haogu pondered for a while, then slowly said: "Isn't your Majesty not good?"

"En?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned instead: "Master thinks it's more than [-]%?"

"Your Majesty, although I am not a member of Buddhism, I also know the truth that the four elements are all empty. If you want to be a monk, you must keep your six sense organs clean!"

Zhang Haogu smiled, and said slowly: "How can you only charge [-]%? I think you should collect all of it. Even if the Buddha comes, you have to pay taxes. Buddhism pays attention to the purity of the six senses. Why do you need so much money? !"

"Fuck..." Zhu Youxiao was stunned.

Huang Liji was also stunned, knowing that Zhang Haogu was ruthless, but he didn't expect Zhang Haogu to be so ruthless.

Received all directly?
"All the monks have to participate in labor even if they are practicing Zen and enlightenment. As for the incense money and ticket money, I think that the Ministry of Household Affairs should establish a unified organization to collect money!"

Zhang Haogu said slowly: "As for the temples that have been in disrepair for a long time, let the Ministry of Industry investigate, and then repair them. Also, the statues of Buddha sold by Fomen are all paid by the court. Already!!"

"All monks, they can practice Zen and enlightenment, but they must also work in the fields to support themselves. The money earned by labor is their own money. Of course, they must be the same as farmers. Pay taxes!"

Zhang Haogu laughed: "Don't be special, let them experience what it means to be empty of the four elements, and what is meant to be pure in the six senses. This is to help them become Buddhas. Your Majesty, we, the kings and ministers, have immeasurable merits!"

(End of this chapter)