Eight Hills in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

The black robe laughed: "Yes, so in fact, after entering Buddhism, the poor people at the bottom still have to work hard to support those children from aristocratic families who are knowledgeable, educated, and able to copy and translate Buddhist scriptures. After taking precepts, putting on cassocks and escaping into Buddhism, the poor people will have the illusion that if they practice in a temple, they are equal brothers and sisters, and they get great satisfaction psychologically.”

"Because the people at the bottom are illiterate and illiterate, let them do what they can do, that is, plant the fields and water vegetables. They will not complain. They also do these things when they are not home as farmers, and they do these things for the Buddha after they become a monk. How can you be dissatisfied with accumulating merit and doing good deeds for the next life? So, the original conflict with you aristocratic families has been resolved invisibly. In Buddhist temples, as long as you work, you don’t have to pay taxes. There are all kinds of rules and regulations, but at least you can feel free, and you don’t have to be ridden on your head anymore.”

Yu Yue let out a long sigh: "This trick is really powerful, it's really amazing. The current farmers and tenants have been awakened by Liu Yu's propaganda, thinking that they are riding on their heads from aristocratic families and gentry powerhouses. They took away the land and resources that belonged to them, and they all want to **** them back from us. The way to grab them is to follow Liu Yu to the Northern Expedition to fight and make military achievements. Owning your own land and property uprightly, hehe, but this is a risk of paying a huge price of life. You may be excited and excited for a while, but if you really continue to fight, you will know how many battles have been fought since ancient times. Where are people going?"

The black robe nodded: "If it is not forced to live, normal people are not willing to fight, because the risk of death is too high, and no matter how high the title is, the cost of life is useless. But, if you don't fight, If you don't join the army, you will have no chance to make meritorious deeds, and you will be oppressed by your noble families from generation to generation. Therefore, if you have no other choice, you can only follow Liu Yu. After all, he has proven that he can win battles , who can distribute a lot of titles and land to ordinary people.”

"However, Liu Yu can't guarantee that every farmer who joins the army can make meritorious deeds, and he can't guarantee that everyone can return from the battlefield safely. It is still a huge risk to follow him, so if there is another way, you don't have to risk your life. , you can also get hope, and you can also have a way to live a happy life, so there must be many people who will choose.”

Yu Yue said without hesitation: "This is Buddhism, but you also said that you can't let everyone become a monk, so that no one in the country will farm. In other words, your method still cannot benefit everyone. Liu Yu will still recruit from most people, right?"

The black robe smiled slightly: "It depends on the cooperation with your aristocratic family. We can discuss the number of temples and the number of monks. In other words, on the surface, the aristocratic family gave these temples incense money. These temples are still the manors of aristocratic families. Except for a small part of the output for the temple's own use, most of the output is still handed over to your major families. The monks in these temples can mainly protect them with the **** of your family. In this way, these emerging temples will become your extra-staff manors, and they will be used by your own people, wouldn’t it be wonderful?”

Yu Yue shook her head and said, "What do you mean, the new temple has become our new family manor? Does that mean donating our existing manor as a Buddhist temple, and then let the concubines, guards and farmers join in?" What? If you say it like this, we will lose some ready-made manors, and even more so, we will have to recruit a large number of skilled farmers, and the tenants will enter these temples. Isn’t this bloodletting ourselves?”

The black robe smiled and waved his hands: "Yu Gong, don't worry if the old ones won't go and the new ones won't come. Those old farmers and tenants have entered the temple to pursue their afterlife practice. Isn't the manor vacant?" Are there a lot of places for tenants and farmers? Tell me, who will fill these vacancies?"

Yu Yue's eyes lit up: "You mean, the people who are self-cultivated farmers will sell their properties again because they evaded Liu Yu's order to conscript troops and pay food, donate their land to our aristocratic family, and become our tenant farmers?"

The black robe squinted his eyes and nodded: "Now you finally understand my plan, as long as the Buddhist idea of ​​accumulating virtue and doing good, killing life and committing evil is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people,

Let ordinary people feel that the Buddha is better for them than Liu Yu, let them feel that the risk of death on the battlefield is higher than the return after victory, and let them feel that even if they kill people and make military achievements and win titles, they still have to make a living. If there is bad karma, there will inevitably be various retributions in the afterlife or in this life, so naturally no one will be happy when they hear the battle, thinking about killing people and making meritorious deeds. "

"The Northern Expedition of Liu Yu's dream, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is what most people in the Jin Dynasty do not want, and it is also not very interesting to the aristocratic families and gentry tycoons. In the past, the Northern Expedition of the Great Jin Dynasty was just for the powerful officials Liu Yu was the only one who really wanted the Northern Expedition under the banner of fighting for greater power, but if the result of the Northern Expedition this time was that the Great Jin Dynasty was almost finished and all the people suffered from military disasters, then no one would trust Liu Yu in the future. Yu's set, if the Buddha manifested his spirit and sent Qin reinforcements to save Dajin, then a family leader like you, Yugong, would take the lead in propagating Buddhism, making the people believe that following Liu Yu would be miserable, and that converting to my Buddha would be very happy, then they would naturally I will turn to worship Buddha just like I worshiped Liu Yu at the beginning.”

Yu Yue smiled and nodded and said: "It sounds very good, especially the latter point, which can bring practical benefits to our aristocratic family. But, can Liu Yu agree to this? If he does not allow the spread of Buddhism, he will hold a strong army and march forward again If Beijing seizes power, what should we do?"

The black robe sneered and said, "Yugong, tell me, when Zu Ti conquered a large area of ​​land and controlled the entire Central Plains, why did Sima Rui make a decree to replace him? Zu Ti would rather be mad at himself than How about raising troops to enter Beijing?"

Yu Yue said with a smile: "That's because General Zu Ti's loyalty is the foundation. As a Mafia guard, it's not easy to break the face with the other guards. You mean, Liu Yu served the country with loyalty, and the Northern Expedition Righteousness is the name, so if you are kicked out of the capital this time, you can only serve as side generals in Jiangbei and Qilu, so it is impossible to fight back to Jiankang?"