People in Hongwu, from heavenly master to emperor master

Chapter 262 Monks and Taoists pay taxes, do you have any kind?

"I usually see you as lawless, but you are so close to the center of power, you will flatter me!

The slogan on the fence, if I heard the emperor, I would definitely get goosebumps! "

Zhang Yi didn't take it seriously when he heard the words, but instead smiled:

"Uncle also thinks the effect is good, all I want is for him to get goosebumps!

No matter how disgusting, let's come here, anyway, it's enough to impress His Majesty! "

Instead, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned by what he said. He originally wanted to laugh at Zhang Yi for his lack of position, but after hearing what he said, it seems that there is something special about it?

The father and son looked at each other, and Zhu Biao said:
"Brother Zhang, what do you care about?"

Zhang Yi sighed, trying to create an image of himself that was very difficult, but the gesture of embarrassing himself for writing new words made people laugh.

"Uncle and Brother Huang's family don't know something, don't look at my Dragon and Tiger Mountain is full of flowers, but the knife is still on the neck!

Religion itself has the attribute of demagogy, so the king uses it and fears it!
In fact, the best way is to act in a low-key manner!
But by accident, I, Longhushan, are now taking on more and more things, so the better the situation is, the more we must be careful of the eyes from the palace!

Running a school is education!
It is an activity to teach the people directly and go deep into the masses.

As long as those civil servants can't see it and slander us as a rebel, it will not be cleared up.

Therefore, emphasizing loyalty and patriotism and strengthening ideological education is a last resort and must be done!

First of all, it is indeed true to be loyal to the emperor and patriotic!
Secondly, this is also for the emperor to see that I, Longhushan, have absolutely no intention of rebelling!

As for why you want to brush the slogan?Um……

Uncle looks vulgar and disgusting, that's exactly what Xiaodao wants those scholar-officials and kings to see!

A vulgar and disgusting villain will not be regarded as a danger to guard against..."

After Zhang Yi's words, the teasing expression on Zhu Yuanzhang's face disappeared. This child simply engraved the desire to survive in his bones.

However, his method of self-defilement also gave him a lot of inspiration.

Little people have their own way of survival, which is an eye-opener for him.

But he refused to accept it:
"You are underestimating yourself, the current situation in Longhu Mountain is that the fire is cooking oil, and it is rising steadily!
The famous mountains in the world have always had seven Buddhas and three ways, and the Buddhist gates overwhelm the Taoist gates!
That is to say, you stinky brat beat the abbot of the world's number one temple away with one punch!

Now Longhushan is leading the Taoist sect to regain the number one in the world, that is just around the corner! "

Zhang Yi was startled, and quickly waved his hands:
"That can't be done, if the Buddhist sect wants to be the boss, let him go and hang out under Lord Hong Wu, being the number one is not a good thing!
But Xiaodao doesn't worry about this. Our Taoism is outstanding in bulk, and no one will accept it!
As long as Longhushan takes good care of Longhushan, Taoism can't afford it!
Being able to use the resources in hand to do something for the people is also worthy of the incense money they gave us!

For the others, let the Buddhist gate go to the top! "

Zhu Yuanzhang:
"Are you being too careful, maybe His Majesty doesn't have that in mind?"

Zhang Yi said:
"Hey, we are monks, Taoists, that is the original sin!
Monk Taoism, from the social level, is also a maggot lying on the social level and sucking blood!
Monks and Taoists do not do production, and will take up a lot of social resources!

If it is a large monastery, it will even occupy a large amount of land!

However, some of these land properties are not taxed. From the national level, they have disappeared from the national tax system!
How could such a person please the emperor!
It's just the saying of immortals and Buddhas, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!
The emperor needs to appease people's hearts and stabilize the world, so we still have the value of existence.

But don't take yourself too seriously, and don't seek the prosperity of the Dharma like those Buddhist monks. Since ancient times, there have been more Buddhas destroyed than Dao, which makes sense!

Our Taoist priests can poison the emperor to death at most,
They moved the foundation of social stability! "

One thing Lao Zhu likes about Zhang Yi is that he does not have double standards.

He did not spare any effort to black the emperor, but he was absolutely unambiguous when he blacked himself.

Although Zhang Yi is a Taoist priest, his position has never been on the side of the Taoist priest.

This guy has always been aloof from the perspective of a bystander, an observer.

"Our emperor has a background in Buddhism, and he also understands religion!
Judging from the fact that he took care of my father when he first came to power, His Majesty is extremely vigilant about religion!

In fact, maybe His Majesty himself didn't realize why he instinctively guarded and suppressed Longhushan!

I think the deep-seated reason is that he is afraid that Longhushan will grow stronger in the new dynasty if he has made great contributions to the dragon!
In fact, Longhushan does not have the ability to confuse people's hearts and raise troops to rebel!

But it is not necessarily annexed to the land!

In fact, my Dragon and Tiger Mountain left a large amount of land from the previous dynasty, many of which are not subject to tax...

And monks and Taoists who have degree certificates are tax-free, free from corvee, and there are certain land tax-free!

If the old man issued a large number of certificates, hehe...

Doesn't the emperor have a big head?

Now the world is full of waste, and people are needed everywhere!

With one more monk or Taoist, there will be one less productive person in society! "

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded approvingly, Zhang Yi's words had reached his heart.

Although the tax exemption of temples and Taoist temples has improved since the Tang Dynasty.

But the temples and Taoist temples are prosperous, and there are still a lot of tax-free land. These lands and the people who produce them are actually disappearing existences for the court.

If we don't suppress monks and Taoists, will this situation continue to worsen?
Zhang Normal is the first to give away the head. If Lao Zhu doesn't beat him, who will he beat?
"So, if you want to dispel your majesty's doubts, you must make us useful!

Just like those scholar-bureaucrats, the king gave them a certain amount of tax exemption because he recognized their value!
We can't always reflect our own value by relying on the pure land of nothingness and time to ascend to heaven!
This kind of thing may be able to paralyze the people and maintain the rule when the country is in turmoil!
In Xinchao, everything must serve production!

Making money is the top priority of the imperial court. Longhushan defines itself as a leader who can guide production and participate in the social division of labor for the world to recuperate!
It is also to find a way out for myself!
Let yourself be part of the producer, that's the real way out"

Lao Zhu didn't expect Zhang Yi's ideological awareness to be so high.

This kind of intuitive introspection is no longer just a peep into the future.

What he said actually made the relationship between religion and the king very clear.

The king needs religion to appease the hearts of the people, so he exempts monks, Taoists and similar sects from taxes, and takes them out of the scope of producers as a reward.

But it is also because of this regulation that there is a paradox in the two sects of monks and Taoists.

In theory, if the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism are flourishing, they are drawing the blood of the world.

No emperor would allow this kind of thing to happen, so it must be controlled.

Similar to letting monks and Taoists pay part of the tax, and using the ultimatum system to control the number of monks and Taoists, these are one of the rulers’ methods.

But Zhang Yi provided Zhu Yuanzhang with another idea.

Why not turn monks and Taoists into producers.

This idea is crazy. After all, Buddhism and Taoism are two schools, and most people are monks.

Zheng Yidao is an exception, but because of this exception, he has benefited a lot.

If the emperor breaks this eternal rule, there is a high probability that it will cause a big backlash.

The last time someone moved the interests of the monastery, it was Wu Zetian's business.

"Producers, but monks are not involved in production, how should we define it?

Is it possible to make them serve corvee? "

Zhu Yuanzhang asked tentatively, and Zhang Yi said:
"Any value that defines producers and non-producers can be taxed. The so-called tax relief, in my opinion, is the biggest hole the court has dug for itself!

These things do give some people privilege, and that privilege really should be theirs!

But this deserved, if it gets out of control, it will be a big problem!
Regardless of whether monks or scholar-bureaucrats, the tax relief is the same!
In fact, the destruction of every dynasty begins with the inability to collect taxes.

But why not collect taxes?
To put it bluntly, honors, clansmen, monasteries, and senior officials have annexed too much land!
The land that the imperial court can collect tax is only about seven or eight hundred hectares. If you count the miscellaneous things, it is just over a thousand!
If monks and Taoists get one point, honorable ones get one point, and clan relatives get another point!
In fact, the tax base of the imperial court has been shrinking all the time!
The taxes that the court cannot collect will fall on the people who cultivate the little land left!
On the one hand, the common people live very hard!
On the one hand, the imperial court was very poor!
In the end, it's just a crash!
Letting everyone in the world have property, Pindao thinks it is very meaningful!

Originally, the productivity was not good, and there were a bunch of privileges..."

Zhang Yi just said casually, but Zhu Yuanzhang listened carefully.

He had heard Zhang Yi talking about the end of the Ming Dynasty, but he rarely thought about the root cause of these things.

In fact, there is nothing new under the sun, and the reasons for the collapse of dynasties in the past are similar.

"Do you know something?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked, but Zhang Yi smiled and did not answer.

After all, the imperial examinations hadn't even started yet, so the system of Ming and Qing dynasties that elevated scholars to the top was naturally impossible to talk about.

In his view, the fact that Lao Zhu further raised the status of scholars at that time, and even allowed them to have privileges in life, was also a kind of transfer of power to scholars after the strengthening of the monarchy.

After all, it was not easy to be an official in their family, and being an official in the early Ming Dynasty was not necessarily a popular thing.

But this kind of transfer was also one of the root causes of Ming's financial crisis.

Although the emperor made a lot of efforts to centralize power, and even abolished the system of prime ministers, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did gain greater power than their predecessors.

It was so big that Jiajing could not go to court for decades, and the court was still in chaos.

Yan Song, Zhang Juzheng, or some eunuchs who were so big that they seemed to have power over the world, in fact, the emperor could easily take them down if he wanted to deal with them.

It can elevate the status of famous scholars.

But it is tantamount to making the place bigger.

Since ancient times, China's imperial power has always been in the county. Elevating those people is tantamount to letting the status of the squires be at the grassroots level, which is greater than the previous dynasties...

Those country gentry and big landlords were exploited by the court while exploiting the common people.

The local agricultural tax and commercial tax were basically withheld by the local government in the later stage.
It can't fall into the pocket of the court at all.

Many far-reaching policies actually have their roots in Emperor Hongwu.

But he's too lazy to say such things, and it's hard to say...

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he could not pursue the question, so he changed the subject:

"Don't you still want to give yourself a knife and ask His Majesty to pay taxes to monks and Taoists?
But will this matter destabilize the hearts of the people in the world? "

Zhang Yi smiled and said:

"Only when a group is too big to lose, will there be a dilemma!
Generally speaking, when the dynasty is opened, it is the best time to solve many problems from the root!
Especially for our Daming, because we have the right of the country, it is actually easier to solve many problems!

It's just that the emperor's selfishness is a little bit more serious, and the clan problem he created is the standard throwing away the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds!
Just like the three martial arts and one sect destroying Buddhism, who caused the problem of Buddhism?
Isn't it because the predecessors increased the size of Buddhism layer by layer, resulting in the current situation?
So, don't take yourself too seriously, who knows how stupid the decision that you thought was wise at the time would appear a hundred years later? "

Zhang Yi just complained casually, but Lao Zhu blushed.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the heart. This guy never mentions him, never leaves him.

"Producer..."

"Pindao asked the Taoist priests of Zhengdao to teach the people to read or teach them some farming knowledge, so that they can become producers!
In the cycle of this society, they can contribute their own strength!

The poor monk felt that since there were so few people in the world, it was the right time to recuperate!

It doesn't make sense that some people should be supported by nature, and the scholar-bureaucrat group still does some work, contributing their role in the productivity system...

Of course, Pindao does not mean that monks and Taoists do not play a role in society, they are to appease people's hearts, and it will be their duty to stabilize people's hearts for the king!

But this is not enough!

They have to pay more..."

When Zhang Yi said these words, he didn't put himself in the role of a Taoist at all.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so excited by what he said, he just asked a question:
"Then do you dare to push?"

Zhang Yi was stunned. He and Lao Zhu were just talking casually, but Uncle Huang actually used aggressive tactics against him?

Monks and Taoists pay taxes, if this formulation is made public,
If Lao Zhang could fly a sword, he would probably be so angry that he would take his head from Longhu Mountain a thousand miles away.

This is a major event of betraying one's own class, and anyone would treat him as a monster and accept him.

However, the question is not whether to dare,
Zhang Yi never regarded himself as a Taoist priest at all, let alone which class he belonged to.

On the contrary, he also felt that if he could start with monks and Taoists paying taxes, many things might be derived.

This thing seems to work!
Zhang Yi had a weird grin on the corner of his mouth, which made people feel creepy.

"He won't really dare to do it?"

Lao Zhu's expression also became bewildered.

If Zhang Yi really did it, the consequences would be conceivable to Lao Zhu.

Enemy of all people!

That's an understatement.

"I think I can try it!"

"Are you crazy?"

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth to reprimand Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi was stunned.

Didn't you fool me?
(End of this chapter)