Chastity Layman

  Chapter 242 Sealing Pile Money

   "Just a temple of inspiration, just a temple of inspiration!"

  In the Hall of Xiande, Li Shimin was shocked after reading the playlist presented by Qin Lang, and seeing the rows of numbers listed on it.

  Qin Lang directly made a table for the emperor, and all the data were clear and clear at a glance.

   Various industries of Lingling Temple, including bricks, tiles, beams, columns, rafters and even cherry trees planted in the temple, were sold at a good price.

  Final total discount

Three hundred and seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-six pennies and three hundred and seventy-five pennies. Before Qin Lang said that after confiscating the Inspiration Temple, he could get no less than three hundred thousand pennies. Li Shimin didn't take it to heart, but now he really did. He was really surprised that so much money came out.

  The original tax of the imperial court was a rent adjustment, and the surrogate servants were all real grain, millet, silk, cloth, etc., basically no cash income.

But the Inspiration Temple was abolished by Wude four years ago. It ranks second in Chang'an at most. Above it are Daxingshan Temple, Dazongchi Temple, and Dazhuangyan Temple. The big temple has such famous temples as Louguan Taoism.

  But it is still too shocking that Lingling Temple, which is usually not very visible, can have more than 300,000 guan.

   "Your seal is very good, it is very clear at a glance." Li Shimin still appreciates this new style of seal format very much.

   "This is a set of accounting forms that I came up with earlier. The numbers in the form are all replaced by accounting symbols, which is more convenient and clear. It can save a lot of time when combined with an abacus calculation, and it is also very convenient when looking up."

  Monasteries, land, trees, bricks, fields, shops, workshops, milling houses, slaves, etc. were all auctioned off and sold in exchange for nearly 380,000 worth of gold, silver, copper, silk, and cloth.

   Li Shimin is very satisfied.

   But after a closer look, I also found that the prices of things in the Inspiration Temple seem to be a bit high.

   "How is this auction sold? Why is the price so high?"

"Your Majesty, this is a method of public bidding. Interested buyers are called together, a reserve price is set first, and then the buyers are allowed to directly bid for the auction. In the end, the highest bidder wins, because the properties of the Inspiration Temple are indeed of high quality. In addition, the buyers this time are mainly nobles and relatives, and they are not short of money, so the transaction price is indeed a bit higher."

   "Your Majesty, please look at the back, with a list of buyers of various industries and the final transaction price!"

   Li Shimin turned to the back, and sure enough, he saw the names of his sister, Princess Gaomi, and brother-in-law, Chai Shao, and he immediately understood.

   "Little Lingling Temple has so much money, how about the three major temples of Da Zongchi Temple?" Li Shimin asked.

  Qin Lang reckoned that the emperor was also moved now. They were too rich, but they had no ability to protect the money. Naturally, it was unavoidable to make people covet it. They could only be said to be too greedy. If not, with their name, under normal circumstances, no one would dare to attack them easily.

   But now their riches are as bright as torches in the night.

"Da Zongchi Temple, Dazhuangyan Temple, and Daxingshan Temple were all three imperial temples in the Sui Dynasty. They received countless rewards before and after. Each temple has more than a thousand hectares of land. Each of the three temples occupies a square in Chang'an City. .”

  Daxingshan Temple directly occupies the entire Jingshanfang, while Dazongchi Temple and Dazhuangyan Temple each occupy half of two squares, and actually occupy one square.

  The edict issued by Li Yuan before had not affected them in the slightest.

   Li Shimin originally planned to keep the three temples in Chang'an, and only those three temples will be kept, but now he is a little bit reluctant.

  Qin Lang noticed it and immediately relieved the emperor's worries.

"Your Majesty, I think that His Majesty should personally preside over a palace test for Buddhist scriptures, and let all the monks in Chang'an City who have received the degree certificate participate. In the end, 300 monks with good Taoism will be selected, and then they will be 20 miles away from the east, west, and south gates of Chang'an City. To build three temples, they can be named Huguo Temple, Baoguo Temple, and Weiguo Temple. Each temple has 100 monks, and each monk is granted 50 mu of land, of which 10 mu is the temple’s Yongye farmland, and the remaining 40 mu is the land for the mouth. , the monk died and harvested the field."

  The implication of Qin Lang's words is that no matter what Dazongchi Temple or Dazhuangyan Temple used to be, they will all be abolished, and all the temple properties in the temple will naturally belong to the imperial court.

There are only three temples in the entire Chang'an and Wannian counties. After passing the assessment, 300 monks with Taoism are selected from the monks in Chang'an, and they are divided into three temples. Each temple is given 5,000 mu of land, and 1,000 mu is included in Temple Yongye, 4000 mu is divided into fields.

  Three temples were built by the imperial court, but everything was kept simple, and each temple was built on 50 mu of land.

  In this way, the large and small temples in Chang’an are owned by the land property officials, the temple houses, the land officials, and the money officials...

"Let these monks pray for the Tang Dynasty to practice, translate Buddhist scriptures, devote themselves to practice, and at the same time cultivate and practice by themselves. After all, this is also a kind of practice. Let them grow the land for themselves, and they are not allowed to buy slaves and rent them out. Tenant farming, if the barren fields cannot be planted, the imperial court can take back the official possessions."

  These guys in the province are fat-headed and big-eared. They don't practice seriously all day long, just thinking wildly.

  Li Shimin felt a little ruthless.

But Qin Lang immediately proposed another plan. The fields, workshops, shops, houses, money and silk, etc. recovered from the temple, the money and silk will be put into the treasury, and the fields will be distributed to the people who have insufficient land, and all others will be auctioned. , Of course, it is a directional sale, sold to noble officials and gentry.

  Why sell it to them? Of course, it is to give these people some benefits.

   Eat people soft mouth, take people soft hand.

  Everyone has gained the benefits, and then they can be consistent with each other.

Chang'an is just the beginning. As long as Chang'an is implemented smoothly, everyone can benefit equally. Then Qin Lang believes that a gluttonous feast will soon sweep the entire Tang Dynasty. Divide and devour.

  Although it seems that Siguan, especially the Shi family, may be pitiful, they will not be innocent. As Qin Lang said, even if there were only 300 monks left in Chang'an, it would be too much. After all, these 300 monks may not all be pious and successful in cultivation.

"Your Majesty, I have done the calculations. From the more than 300,000 coins, 100,000 coins can be drawn out of them and saved as a stake money for the purpose of destroying Liang Shidu. If you save 100,000 yuan a month, it will be 100,000 yuan a year." 200,000 guan. In three years, it will be 3.6 million guan, which is enough for Mie Liang."

   Li Shimin was shocked when he heard this.

  Save a sum of special military expenses for destroying Liang? He really didn't think about it before, but now that Qin Lang mentions it, he thinks it's a good idea. As long as there is money, the military can make preparations. Once the disaster is over, the people's hearts are stabilized, and food and grass are ready, they can go to war.

   "In addition, one hundred thousand yuan will be used every month for the expenses of the Sixth Army of the Beiya."

   "Take out 100,000 guan every month and save it as a military reserve for the Northern Expedition to the Turks."

  The 380,000 guan that I just got, was arranged by Qin Lang to take another 300,000 in a blink of an eye, leaving only less than 80,000.

"With the remaining 80,000 guan, your Majesty can deposit 50,000 in the national treasury and 30,000 in your majesty's internal treasury for daily expenses. If you have money in the internal treasury, you don't have to ask the treasury for money every now and then, which is more convenient .”

  Li Shimin felt that Qin Lang's arrangement was really good.

   "But next month can I still have so much income? Next month?"

"Your Majesty, as long as it is implemented in an all-round way, there will be at least this income every month for two or three years, or even more. When the national rectification is almost completed in three years, at that time, I believe that the land tax and salt tax must have been smooth. The levy has started, and at that time, the imperial court will have more stable and more fiscal revenue."

  The emperor felt that Qin Lang could always persuade him easily, not because he could say a lot, but because he could always list numbers one by one, which made him unable to refuse. Compared with Wei Zheng, Wang Gui and the others who only knew to talk about benevolence, righteousness, kindness and morality when they were admonishing, there is no doubt that Qin Lang's set was more liked by Li Shimin.

In order to explain Li Shimin, Qin Lang not only planned to set up a small treasury for Li Shimin, with a monthly payment of 30,000 guan, he even proposed to classify some fields in the temple property as royal manors in the following rectification. In the future, the income generated by these manors will naturally be included in the internal treasury, which belongs to the emperor's private property.

  In the future, it will undoubtedly be much more convenient to reward ministers and court expenses.

Even if Li Shimin is an excellent emperor, he has only been emperor for half a year, and he is only 28 years old, so he still has a lot of desires and a little greed, but he is usually criticized by Wei Zheng and others. Dare to show it easily.

   But after all, he still had these thoughts in his heart. Now that Qin Lang scratched his itch, Li Shimin was very satisfied.

There are many people in the emperor's court, he has many concubines and beauties, many children, and many relatives and sisters, not to mention that there are tens of thousands of officials in the Tang Dynasty, and tens of thousands of imperial guards. The emperor needs money in many places, many .

General Wei Zheng persuaded the emperor to be frugal, to govern by doing nothing, not to interfere too much in worldly affairs, let alone to care about things outside the world, especially economic money, and even to stare at the imperial emperor, and to talk about fighting with the people if he got involved. profit.

   He always said that he oppressed the people and tortured the people.

  Li Shimin is actually tired of listening to it, but he always secretly reminds himself that no matter how angry he is, he must keep Wei Zheng, he must always see Wei Zheng, let him remind himself that the world is not stable, he has to restrain himself.

But he is the emperor after all, he is the son of heaven, and the world belongs to him, so he can't let a group of fake monks be happy and happy, but let him, the emperor, suffer and suffer every day, make his harem concubines and children suffer, and let his son of heaven The pro-army suffers, let him destroy the Turks if he has no money to destroy Liangshi, right?

  Now I don’t torment the people, and I don’t squeeze the people. Could it be that I can’t even deal with a group of monks who threaten the imperial power?

  Before, there were all kinds of fears and worries, but now that Qin Lang has made a move and is still performing well, then Li Shimin has a lot less worries and worries.

   "You let go and do it, I support you! But if necessary, I will second the Jinwu Guard from the Zhenfu Division, or I will transfer the Habayashi Army to assist you with your errands."

  (end of this chapter)