Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Because His Royal Highness the King of Chu can usually solve all difficulties perfectly, basically they are not used at all. Over time, they almost forgot that they still have the status of being enshrined in the palace of the King of Chu.

"Even if it's a fake name, it's very useful." Li You smiled politely, "At least two of them served as the king's worship, which added a lot of prestige to the king in the early days, which can be regarded as a little help. busy."

Hearing this, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang peeped at each other. Although they knew that His Royal Highness the King of Chu was comforting you with kindness, the words of comfort made people sound completely unhappy.

After a helpless sigh, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang could only submit the New Year's greetings stickers first.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, this is our flying post"."

The New Year sticker is an invention of the people of the Tang Dynasty when they visited the door to pay homage to the New Year.

It's just that Li Shimin used greeting cards made of red gold foil, while the rest of the people could only use plum blossom paper, but the emperor took the lead to make people full of enthusiasm.

After Li You nodded and accepted, Yuan Tiangang took out another red gold leaf and handed it to Li You.

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu, this is the flying post that His Majesty asked Pindao to hand over to you."

Li You actually knew that it was Li Shimin's New Year's greeting sticker when he saw that it was red gold foil, and immediately said strangely: "Royal father? Why would he give me a New Year's greeting card... Now it's so lively, it would be great if the emperor came over in person."

Li Chunfeng said with a smile: "Your Majesty's flying post will be given to every minister in the court. Now, Your Highness, you are a minister of the book, and you are also a member of the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, so naturally you will have the flying paper given by your majesty. post."

Li You nodded. He opened the flyer and looked at it. He saw that in the greeting card on the New Year's greetings card, there was an imperial book "Celebrate the whole sky", and it was written a little scribbly. .

"That's right... But in fact, in terms of the identity of the prince, it should be me who will visit the father and the emperor to pay New Year's greetings."

Originally, Li You just said this, but Yuan Tiangang immediately said: "By the way, on this point, His Majesty also has an order for the poor to bring it."

Li You curiously asked: "What did the emperor say?"

"His Majesty said..." Yuan Tiangang said hesitantly, "Since I have given you a flyer, don't come here to pay New Year's greetings. I don't want to see you for the time being.

Li You: "..."

Is this Li Shimin being arrogant or petty?

However, Li You probably knew that it was Li Shimin who felt that he had been tricked into destroying the Buddha, but he couldn't let go of the huge interests behind it, so even if he noticed this, he still had to plant it in Li You's hands in the end.

Therefore, Li Shimin is now in a state of anger.

"Forget it, you two come in with me first." Li You put away the New Year's greetings sticker, "I just made a prison pill, you can eat it together."

Lao Wan is another name for dumplings, but dumplings in the Tang Dynasty.

Since so many people have come to the Chu Palace, Li You thought about what to eat for a while, and finally decided to make dumplings that have a Chinese New Year feel, are convenient for mass production, and are delicious.

Dumplings in the Tang Dynasty were made of dough and wrapped in a half-moon shape and wrapped in various fillings. They were then boiled in a large pot. After they were cooked, they were taken out. When eating, they were served with vinegar and garlic, and modern dumplings. Basically no different.

The only difference is probably that the dumplings in the Tang Dynasty were not called ".~dumplings", but "Tangzhong prison pills", right?

This is because when Tang people eat dumplings, they will eat the soup with water, and sprinkle some coriander in the soup.

"It's better to be respectful than to obey your life."

Both Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang readily agreed, but when they stepped in, they all had a slight meal.

"Besides that... Pindao wants to express his thanks to His Royal Highness King Chu on behalf of the Taoists in the world!"

Listening to the respectful voices of the two of them, Li You stopped and looked back at Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang.

"Are you talking about the extinction of the Buddha?"

Li You raised his brows, although he knew that Buddhism and Taoism were incompatible, and both sides had been fighting for the status of the strongest religion in the Tang Dynasty, but as soon as Buddhism suffered, he immediately gloated and thanked him. Is Taoism too cautious?

Seeing Li You's expression, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang knew that Li You had misunderstood their meaning.

"Please don't misunderstand, Your Highness," Li Chunfeng explained, "Pindao means, I would like to thank His Highness the King of Chu for not involving the Taoist school while destroying the Buddha, so I would like to thank His Royal Highness the King of Chu for the Taoists in the world!"

The two of them have a high status in Taoism, so naturally they are very aware of the dark things behind Taoism, because these are the shadows that cannot be avoided after the religion has grown enormously.

Chapter 721 "The Legend of the White Snake"! (fourth more)

Taoism also has many Taoist temples that occupy land and do not pay taxes. In a sense, it is the same as Buddhism. Therefore, Li You could choose to wipe out Taoism in one go.

But Li You didn't do this, and he didn't even mention Taoism, which made Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang grateful.

"So that's how it is..."

Li You was relieved. In fact, in his opinion, after the development of Taoism, there are many unbearable places, but at least it is better than Buddhism in many aspects.

First, the desire for expansion of Taoism is far less strong than that of Buddhism. Second, although people of Taoism travel the world, they are like Sun Simiao.

Of course, there are also a lot of gangsters and fortune-telling liars among them, but they are all small money, but it is not that serious.

The third point, and the most important point, is that Taoism does not prohibit marrying a wife and having children!

This is what Li You values ​​most, and it is also the fundamental difference between Taoism and Buddhism. This alone is enough for Li You to treat him differently.

You must know that there is a shortage of people in Datang now, especially lack of people, so what is the best way to replenish the population?Of course it's having a baby!

However, Buddhism forbids marrying a wife and having children, which directly cuts off the road of population growth in the Tang Dynasty.

Well deserved it is!

After thinking about it, Li You said: "To be honest, there are reasons behind this. After all, from the statistics of the Ministry of Households, Taoism is still far inferior to the terrorist forces of Buddhism, so it is still within the scope of control."

In comparison, the development of Buddhism is completely out of control.

All over the world in the Tang Dynasty, there are thousands of temples and nunneries alone, and there may be millions of monks and nuns, and the fields they occupy and the hidden population are extremely amazing. of!