Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Li You then changed the topic: "But now Buddhism is bad because the scale is out of control, and it has seriously affected the court and even the country! If you only know how to pray to God and worship Buddha, then what is the difference between a fool and a foolish woman? ?"

"If it really works if you worship God and ask Buddha, then why do you need imperial examinations in this world? What else do you need officials to do? Why do you need to study hard and work hard? The wealth of the country cannot be used for development or construction. Just blindly repairing Buddha statues and building temples, then the Tang Dynasty will never progress!"

Chapter 717 Persuading the Emperor (Sixth)

Li You is not an unreasonable person. Whatever he doesn't care about is to blindly destroy the Buddha. Li You has thought about the pros and cons of eradicating the Buddha.

He is not forcibly promoting the eradication of the Buddha in order to achieve his own goals, but because the eradication of the Buddha is really necessary and it is the best time!

The Buddha worshipped by Buddhism was originally a barbarian person, who did not understand the language of the Tang Dynasty and had different clothes.

He did not speak the law of the previous king, and he did not obey the law of the previous king.

Of course, these are secondary. After all, when it comes to the degree of enlightenment and tolerance, Li You from modern times is definitely better than anyone in this era, and he will never think that something is from foreign barbarians because it is not good~ of.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with Buddhism in essence. The teachings of primitive Buddhism are to lead people to be kind, to cultivate people, and to become Buddhas. Generally speaking, Buddhism is relatively mild.

Although there were also cults such as the Maitreya Sect during this period, which were madly rebelling and causing trouble in the chaotic world, but after all, these were very few. Of course, it is not good to deny all of them with a part.

Li You made this decision because even if you put aside the cultural standpoint, just in terms of the interests of the Tang Dynasty, advocating Buddhism is not beneficial to the country at all!

One of the most important points is that Buddhism betrays the Gangchang folk religion, which hinders the national economy and people's livelihood.

Although there are tens of thousands of Buddhist temples all over the world, as well as millions of monks and nuns, so many people do nothing, recite sutras and worship Buddha all day long, which is even more unbearable than those of the later generations!

After all, even those gnawing elders in later generations, at least most of them stay at home honestly and don't go out to harm the society very much?

On the contrary, the Buddhist monks are not. Most of them will not stay in the temple honestly, but go out to expand their forces to search for money, and finally have a huge wealth that makes Li Shimin jealous!

In particular, they have also formed a strong temple economy. Buddhist temples generally own many fields, and even have mortgages, mortgages and loans, and they also have a large number of tenants and even a lot of slaves!

However, these millions of monks and nuns, obviously sitting on such a huge industry, will not pay a penny of taxes to the imperial court, and the tenant slaves under their names are also not subject to the jurisdiction of the household registration population of the imperial court. No tax, no tax!

Therefore, for the imperial court, Buddhism is basically a super-big tumor, even more hateful than a pest like the noble family!

This is also the reason why when Wu Zhou destroyed the Buddha, the country suddenly became stronger, and the treasury became full, and then the Northern Qi was wiped out in one fell swoop!

Seeing that the civil and military ministers stopped talking, Li You turned to Li Shimin again.

Now many civil servants and military generals are still opposed or questioned in their hearts. It doesn't matter at all. The most important thing is to persuade Li Shimin to really implement this policy.

"Father, you just need to make up your mind to implement the strategy of eradicating the Buddha, then you can at least increase the population of the Tang Dynasty by more than [-] million registered people, and you can add at least [-] million mu of fertile land, and at least get tens of millions of dollars. Consistent wealth! The country can get this benefit, everything depends on a single thought!"

Li You stared at Li Shimin who was in deep thought, and said.

Looking at Li Shimin's appearance, he knew that this series of numbers had already moved Li Shimin's heart!

As Li You had expected, Li Shimin kept reciting the numbers in his heart, and even his breathing was a little short.

In the past, he often fought with the prime ministers just for the sake of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and worried about the placement of the Beiya Imperial Army just for the sake of millions of acres of land.

But those fat-headed and big-eared monks can occupy so many fields, hide so many people, and own so much property!

Compared to this, what kind of emperor is Li Shimin?

It's so bitter that even a monk can't compare!

what is this?Could it be that those monks are the more nourishing soil emperors?

Thinking of this, Li Shimin's heart immediately became unbalanced.

Originally, Li Shimin had the idea of ​​destroying the Buddha for a long time, but he later made a change in Xuanwu Gate, which led to the stagnation of the Buddha's eradication.

In the end, the most fundamental reason is that after Li Shimin himself came to power, considering that it was a factor that was not right in the end, he hoped that the imperial power would be stable, so he suspended the matter.

And now, the eradication of the Buddha has been brought up again by Li You, and he has thoroughly analyzed the pros and cons, and its necessity and mature conditions have made the flame of eradicating the Buddha blazing in Li Shimin's heart!

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The most important thing is that the huge benefits, combined with the report of the Ministry of households, are simply at your fingertips, and it is impossible to keep Li Shimin unmoved.

"Father, as long as we can destroy the Buddha once, let's do it! Think about it, although there are not as many monks and nuns as there were in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the number of monks and nuns in the country is not less than in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, right? It depends on these How many monks and nuns have hidden households and slaves? Not to mention ten times, seven or eight times, right?"

Seeing this, Li You began to entice again, his smile and voice were like the temptation whispers of a devil.

"There are tens of thousands of Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty, how many temple fields will there be? There are so many Buddha statues in the temple, how much more copper can be made after they are destroyed and cast? If we can really make up our minds to destroy the Buddha, then we... oh no, You can definitely make a big deal!"

The huge change in Li You's painting style was so abrupt that the civil and military officials were speechless.

How could this have become as if the traitorous villain was tempting His Majesty to do bad things?

Chapter 718 I don't go to hell, who goes to hell? (first update)

It's too hot for the eyes and too hot for the ears.

Even Li Shimin twitched the corners of his mouth, you must have missed the point just now, right?Definitely want to say that after the extinction of the Buddha, "we" will be able to make big hair, right? !

This is already undisguised, and it is an open and honest statement that he will make a profit in the eradication of Buddha!

After listening to Li You's words, Li Shimin already knew how much benefit the eradication of Buddhas could bring. If nothing else, there are tens of thousands of monks and nuns and hundreds of Buddhist temples and nunneries in Chang'an alone!

They have a huge amount of fields, and the tenant farmers who are attached to their names are estimated to be as many as [-] to [-]. Anything that leaks out any profit is extremely astonishing.

But it is precisely because Li You made profits from it that he was upright and upright. Instead, there was a sense of wise people not doing secret things, so that "April [-]" Li Shimin couldn't say anything at all.

After all, this is not the first time that Li You has done this. Just like Gao Changguo before, half of his interests were directly taken away by Li You, and he was not at all like those corrupt officials who were secretly stalking. The incomparably righteous and justifiable.

But with this Li You N question, Li Shimin was also moved to the extreme.