The snow in the capital is still falling, as if there is no intention of stopping.

Li Xiang was not afraid of the cold, and pulled Yu Chi Baolin to run towards the Great Country Temple.

"Cui's mother made a wish in the Great Country Temple, let's go see her."

Li Xiang wants to go to see Cui's mother, even if Yu Chi Baolin doesn't want to go, she has to follow, because Li Yu handed over Li Xiang's safety to him.

The cold and snow were falling, and the two ran to the Great Power Temple.

The first two days of the Great Dao Temple were still very lively, with soup kitchens and singing.

But after the snow, none of that was there.

The front of the Great Dao Temple is a little deserted, and only a few believers are burning incense.

After Li Xiang and Yu Chi Baolin trotted in, they went directly to Cui Ma's room.

Cui's mother was slightly obese, and when they entered, Cui's mother was chanting.

She is still very religious, so much so that she is very involved in reciting the scriptures, and she doesn't even notice that Li Xiang and Yu Chi Baolin are coming.

The snow outside was rustling, and the two saw that Cui's mother didn't have time to take care of them, so they didn't stay any longer, turned around and walked out.

However, the two of them were too playful, and they did not leave the Great Power Temple, but ran around in the Great Power Temple.

When the two of them ran like this, they suddenly broke into the courtyard presided over by the Great Power Temple, and as soon as the two approached, they heard a voice inside, and Yu Chi Baolin was relatively cautious, and hurriedly shushed.

The two quietly looked inside, and then saw a group of monks carrying boxes to the carriage, and a fat-headed and big-eared monk talking to a young scholar-like man.

"This year's offerings are all here, and Mr. Lao Liu told the head of the family that I will give double it next year."

The scholar-like man showed a slight smile and said, "It's best to be so natural, don't worry, I'll tell the head of the family." ”

The two of them muttered like this, those boxes were almost full, and then, the scholar-like man pulled the boxes and went out of the Great Power Temple.

Li Xiang and Yu Chi Baolin were both a little shocked when they saw this.

"There's money in that box."

"But hasn't it always been people who give money to monks, why did monks give money to Liu Dongsheng instead?" Li Xiang seemed to recognize the man, Yu Chi Baolin frowned slightly, and then hurriedly took Li Xiang back to the East Palace.

When the two of them came back, the snow was getting heavier and thicker, and at this time Li Yu had already returned from the Weapons Bureau.

"You two, where did you go in such a heavy snow?" Li Yu's tone was a little cold, obviously aimed at Yu Chi Baolin, in such weather, it was too dangerous to take Li Xiang to other places.

Yu Chi Baolin bowed her head and was silent, and Li Xiang stood up, "Brother Prince, I have to pull Yu Chi Baolin to play." ”

Li Yu snorted: "You are not allowed to look like this again in the future." ”

Obviously, now that both of them are back, Li Yu just wants to scare them.

And after he said this, Li Xiang immediately said, "Brother Prince, today we went to the Great Power Temple and found a very strange thing. ”

Li Yu was puzzled, what strange things could be in the Great Power Temple?

Without waiting for Tang Yu to speak, Li Xiang said again, "We found that the abbot of the Great Dao Temple handed over boxes and boxes of money to Liu Dongsheng, Liu Dongsheng, you know, the housekeeper of the Zheng family." ”

The Zheng family was talking about the Zheng family of the four wealthy families of the Tang Kingdom, and Li Yu heard Liu Dongsheng, the housekeeper who gave the monk to the Zheng family, and then he frowned slightly.

It has always been someone else who gave the monk incense money, so why did the monk give the money to Liu Dongsheng?

Soon, Li Yu thought of some problems, the Zheng family is a little different from other wealthy families, they rarely do business, even if they do business, they are not very famous, quite low-key.

But the Zheng family never seemed to be short of money.

In this way, it is not difficult to guess that they have other channels for making money, such as temples.

The temple is the carrier of faith, and if the Zheng family uses faith to make money, I am afraid that this kind of means is not comparable to other families.

In fact, in Li Yu's view, the so-called faith is the control of some ignorant people

system, and not worthy of praise.

It is very scary for temples to take advantage of the beliefs of some believers to make money.

Li Yu frowned, didn't say anything to Li Xiang and them, but turned around and went to the study, and sent someone to call Xu Maogong.

After Xu Maogong came, Li Yu told Xu Maogong about the situation, Xu Maogong was a Taoist priest, and after hearing these words, he was a little embarrassed.

But soon, he still said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, if the Zheng family uses the temple to collect money, then this temple will definitely not be clean, and there are a lot of dirty things that have been done, and the temple is because of faith, the huge power is only beyond people's imagination, if you want to get rid of it, you should get rid of it as soon as possible." ”

Speaking of this, Xu Maogong smiled again, "In fact, there are many temples in the Tang Kingdom, and these temples are very rich, take the Great Country Temple as an example, the Great Country Temple is prosperous in incense, and the daily incense money is a large amount, and then there is that the temple's land is not subject to taxes, so the temple will buy the good land, how to hire people to farm for them, so that many people become tenants, relying on these lands, they can make a lot of money." ”

There is no need to pay taxes, the more land there is, the more money there is, and the temple took advantage of this policy of the Tang State to make a fortune.

After Xu Maogong finished saying this, Li Yu's eyes already showed a little murderous intent.

First, the temple was used by the Zheng family, in this case, the Zheng family was too dangerous, and it could shake the foundation of his Tang State at any time, and besides, the resources controlled by the temple were too much, so that many people had no land to cultivate, which was also very detrimental to the stability of the Tang Kingdom.

If the temples were suppressed, their land property was recovered, and distributed to the people, it would be of great benefit to the Tang State.

Li Yu thought to himself, but then he ran into another trouble.

"What Mr. Xu said is very reasonable, but these temples have a lot of believers to support, if these temples are taken, or even demolished, those believers are afraid that they will not give up, but if the Tang Kingdom is turbulent because of this, it will not be good."

Speaking of this, Li Yu said again, "Moreover, even if we want to suppress these temples, we must have a reason, but we can't say that we want to suppress them just because the temples are used by the Zheng family." ”

Fighting a war pays attention to being famous, and suppressing the temple naturally has to have a reason, without a reason, the court will not be able to stand, and those believers will be even more crazy.

Xu Maogong smiled lightly and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, isn't it simple to want a reason?" In a temple like the Great Power Temple, there must be black hands to collect money, and even do a lot of dirty things, as long as you find one or two things, isn't there a reason for this? ”

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