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Chapter 704 Xu Jingzong Knows Everything

Chapter 704 Xu Jingzong Knows Everything

Yunchu took his whole family, five thousand worthless soldiers he took in, and Xuanzang and a large group of monks set off back to Chang'an.

The Daozheng monk of Baima Temple was appointed by the emperor as Juemiao Qingzheng Tibetan Tantric Monk, and became the first monk after Zhizang, Huiyin, Jizang, Baogong, Mingshan, Fakan, Haizang and Xuanzang. Nine great virtues.

If Dharma King Naha is counted, it becomes Datang's top ten virtues.

It's just that Naha was young, and Master Xuanzang tried his best to prevent it, so Naha didn't become one of the ten virtues.

The ten virtuous and eminent monks are actually the central organization recognized by the Tang Dynasty to manage monks and monks in various states.

Six in the south and three in the north.

It is very strange to say that the senior monks of the Tang Dynasty usually study in the south, and when they finish their studies, they will come to the northern temples to serve as abbots.

Therefore, after Master Daozheng, the abbot of the White Horse Temple, becomes the new eminent monk, he will leave the White Horse Temple and go to Chang'an to become the abbot of the Daxingshan Temple.

The imperial court will select a virtuous and eminent monk from the south to come to the White Horse Temple as the new abbot.

Prince Li Hong tried his best to recommend Naha to his mother to take up the post of director of Baima Temple, but was reprimanded by Wu Mei three times before getting out of Hanyuan Hall.

Naha is the queen of the Buddha kingdom, in fact, she is the presiding master of the Buddha kingdom. This point has been settled long ago, and neither the emperor nor the queen will easily change this point.

However, Naha cannot stay in the Buddhist kingdom. On the contrary, she needs to stay in Chang'an and continue to practice with Master Xuanzang in Daci'en Temple.

Yunchu was very satisfied with the emperor's arrangement. In this way, Naha would live in the house and go to Daci'en Temple for a while after doing nothing.

A monk, or a nun, who has mixed up to Naha's level, as long as he doesn't rebel, basically there is no danger of his life.

Although the emperor and empress must have their considerations in arranging the Buddhist sect in this way, Yunchu didn't care about it. This was Xuanzang's business.

According to Wen Rou's conjecture, the reason why the emperor and the empress made such an arrangement was to provoke the confrontation between the north and the south of Buddhism, and because the monks in the north were relatively tough, they deliberately weakened their right to speak.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were only a few degree certificates issued to professional monks every year. After the imperial court drew up a total number, they distributed these degree certificates to the ten virtuous monks, and then distributed them to the monks in each state capital.

In other words, the imperial court allowed more people in the south to become monks, and fewer people in the north to become monks.

This kind of thing doesn't matter to Naha, because she has always sent out the certificate of the Buddha's Kingdom indiscriminately, and she can send out as many as she wants... The imperial court can't wait for all the men in the Western Regions to become monks and all the women to become nuns.

In just one month, so many things happened in Luoyang City. When Yunchu left, he basically couldn't see the impact of these things on Luoyang. After all, it is a huge city with its own special way of operation.

Di Renjie refused the opportunity to stay in Dali Temple in Luoyang as a doctor, but insisted on returning to Chang'an and taking up the post of Shaoqing of Dali Temple in Chang'an.

Everyone knows that where the emperor is, the power is there. The authority of the ministers in Luoyang is greater than that of the Shaoqing of Dali Temple in Chang'an.

Especially after the emperor and empress left Chang'an, only Chang'an and Wannian counties remained in Chang'an, and the rest of the authority belonged to the Governor's Mansion of Yongzhou.

The governor of the Yongzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is Ji Wang Li Shen, but he is useless as the governor...

Fortunately, the Minister of Dali Temple is in Luoyang, and the Shaoqing of Dali Temple in Chang'an has become the highest judicial officer in Chang'an.

This is what people like Di Renjie expect.

Over the years, that is, Yunchu, Wenrou, and Di Renjie have been restrained and have not attacked high positions, otherwise, as far as the nature of the three of them is concerned, they are three very expensive people.

After many people died in Luoyang City, the emperor decided to pardon the sinners in Luoyang Prison to calm the situation.

Therefore, all the people of the eight wealthy families who were implicated and imprisoned were released. This was the second time they went in and were released.

The common people are ignorant, they don't know anything, even if there is a stampede, even if there is an explosion, and there is an accident where the governor's office and the East Palace were attacked, as long as they don't see it with their own eyes, they still don't care much.

For countless years, ordinary people have been like this. Without the pain of the skin, they cannot feel the pain of others.

Someone told them the whole story of all the things that happened in Luoyang City, starting from the wealthy family, to the revenge of secret spies, to the rebellion of foreigners taking advantage of the chaos, and explained everything clearly.

Even ignorant children know clearly that the tragedy that happened in Luoyang not long ago was caused by these eight families.

Public opinion can be deceived, so it depends on how it is said. Therefore, these rumors with clear thinking and high credibility have finally reached a consensus in the hearts of the people of Luoyang City.

That is, the crimes are committed by wealthy families, aristocratic families, and foreigners. As for the emperor...they still dare not complain.

In this environment, it is a luxury for the eight wealthy families to continue to settle down in Luoyang. No one can live in an environment where everyone hates them.

Compared with Luoyang, Chang'an is much friendlier to them, especially the county magistrates of Chang'an and Wannian, before they left Luoyang, specially brought gifts to visit some aristocratic families and noble families, and offered to extend a friendly hand, hoping They can live in Chang'an to improve the overall quality of Chang'an people.

Yunchu and Rourou also assured these people that they would be given a peaceful living environment, a new environment where they could study quietly, do business, and take exams.

These people still trust Yunchu and Wenrou. After all, both of them were born as Scholars of the Tang Dynasty, Yunchu was the ninth Jinshi, and Wenrou was the third.

Undoubtedly, these two people were born as scholars, and the most important thing is that the character of these two people is well-known in Chang'an.

No matter who it is, it is a great enjoyment to deal with them.

There are also smart people who think it's wrong. Yunchu and Wenrou are building a large-scale construction project in Chang'an, and even the city walls have been demolished in pieces.

It was also heard that one of the two of them planned to continue building the Daming Palace, and the other planned to use the entire Xingqingfang to build the Xingqing Palace.

Judging from these circumstances, there are only two purposes for the two of them to be courteous to others, one is for the money in the pockets of Luoyang nobles, and the other is to hope that the emperor will save money after seeing Daming Palace and Xingqing Palace. The court moved to Chang'an.

"Teacher, those wealthy families are not good people, why did the master invite them to Chang'an?"

Since Xu Jingzong became Li Hong's full-time teacher, Li Hong would take the initiative to ask the Taifu whenever he encountered any puzzles.

Xu Jingzong didn't feel that he had been marginalized by the court when only the position of Taifu was left. On the contrary, he now enjoyed being a pure Taifu.

The strife in the court is a bit cruel for an 80-year-old man. He is a great Confucian of his own generation. If he just calms down and teaches the prince, it will not be difficult for him.

"Because those people have money."

"However, there are many rich people in Datang, why invite these inappropriate people?"

"That's because the two of them dare not touch pure and flawless rich people, so they have to invite many flawed people to Chang'an, so that the two of them can find a chance to attack."

"Are you going to kill them?"

"I don't think so. Yunchu will only sell them a lot of beautiful houses and courtyards."

"So, wouldn't it be cheaper for them?"

"I don't know if it's cheap or not, but after those wealthy families bought the house, they probably don't have much money to harvest the common people."

"Use money to harvest people?"

"That's right, this is a common method used by the wealthy people. The former Sui Dynasty was defeated by them in this way. A moment ago, the common people only used seven or eight dollars to buy a bucket of rice. When Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty marched eastward, it would cost a hundred yuan to buy a bucket of rice. money.

Oh, when your great-grandfather was still Tang Guogong, he melted all the bronze statues in your ancestral temple and used them to buy rice. Finally, when your great-grandfather rebelled, a bucket of rice was worth [-] yuan. "

"Why would great-grandfather do this?"

"Oh, that's because Grandfather Ni didn't want Yang Guangdong to conquer successfully. After the price of rice has increased by nearly a hundred times, the prices of other materials will also rise. After the levy, more than [-]% were missing.

So, during Yang Guang's last expedition to the east, many soldiers who conquered Goguryeo had no choice but to flee all the way because they lacked food and clothing, and were killed miserably by the Goguryeo people.

In the end, Wang Bo began to sing the song "Death Song of the Undirected Liaodong Wave" in Liaodong, and then the world was in chaos, and there were 36 roads against the king, 72 smoke and dust, and your great-grandfather was one of them against the king. "

"How did you know?"

"Does the old man know what's strange? At that time, the old man was a food and grass master under your great-grandfather. A lot of copper coins were circulated to the market from the old man. He bought a lot of military rations and hid them all. Army rations from your great-grandfather's rebellion."

"Since everyone is throwing copper coins out, how will they get them back?"

"It's very simple. After the wealthy families transfer all the copper coins to the common people, we won't collect copper coins. At least we won't collect copper coins when we sell things, and we won't collect copper coins when we pay taxes. We only use barter. trade.

When your great-grandfather was the emperor, the recognized coins changed from copper coins to silk, linen, and grain. From the 13th year of Daye to the ninth year of Wude, for nine years, my Tang Dynasty never stored copper coins.

And those common people with copper coins in their hands, in order to get a bite to eat, took out the only copper coins and gave them to the rich to melt them into copper utensils in exchange for a bite of food...

Many temples, family temples, Taoist temples, and nunneries were built at that time. Everyone has a lot of copper, but there are very few copper coins on the market.

It wasn't until your grandfather came to the throne that he felt that bartering was too costly, and it was inconvenient to collect taxes for business and trade. Then he began to slowly open Tongshan and increased the amount of Kaiyuan Tongbao minted. "

After pondering for a long time, Li Hong said, "How much impact will this have on the common people?"

Xu Jingzong laughed and said: "In the ninth year of Daye, there were 780 million households in the former Sui Dynasty, and the total number exceeded 5000 million. By the seventh year of Wude, there were 200 million households in the Tang Dynasty, and the total number did not exceed 600 million. .

You have learned martial arts from Yun Chu for so long, you should know how many people can die directly under the sword.

Most of them died of starvation, disease, freezing..."

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