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Of course, a considerable part of the bamboo paper is used to print Buddhist scriptures and other books after it is made.

These things are all related to Huguo Temple.

Now in Xingyuan Mansion, with the support of Da Yin Gaoyue, in the past two years, Master Mingxuan's Pure Land Sect Huguo Temple has expanded very rapidly, and Master Mingxuan has cultivated several excellent Buddhist temple backbones, not only in Xingyuan Mansion, but also to Banan, Jingyuan, Fengxiang and Jinshang, and even Shannan Dongdao and other places to spread the Pure Land Sect.

However, Master Mingxuan never held a "divine meeting" (similar to a modern temple fair) like other sects of Buddhism to encourage good men and women to donate money and corn.

The Immortal Library is actually an "endless treasure" that imitates the third-order teaching.

The Endless Collection, on the other hand, derives from the "Endless Collection", which is the so-called almsgiving to Buddhist temples and monks in order to show their support for Buddhism. The main one of these is "Endless Diet", there are fifteen categories, which fifteen categories? Japonica rice, glutinous rice, corn, flour, fat, adzuki beans, soybeans, firewood, cannibalism (believers are obliged to cook for the Buddhist temple's fasting meeting, which is also a kind of almsgiving), salt, honey, ginger pepper, cheese, flax, melons, fruits and vegetables, used for cultivating and propagating the Dharma, and hoarding them in the temple on weekdays, slowly forming a treasury, which is the "endless collection of alms".

However, the endless treasure is not as some scholars believe, but was used by the temple to lend usury. In fact, there are three main uses for Endless Collection:

one for the addition and repair of Buddhist temples;

one for almsgiving to the needy;

One portion is used as a fasting offering for the monk's rituals (after all, monks also have to eat when they do things).

Special attention should be paid to the second part, sometimes the temple uses endless treasures for free to help the people, playing a role in regulating society, but when the believers are in short supply, they can also borrow money from the temple.

This kind of borrowing money does not need to make a contract document, that is, it is all supported by the believer's sense of faith and honor, so there are very few people who do not repay the debt, because what you borrow is not the money of the temple, but the money that other believers give to the temple, if you do not pay it back, in fact, you are planting evil causes, and you will definitely suffer retribution, under the control of this concept, as long as possible, the believer will definitely repay the money.

However, when repaying the money, a considerable number of believers also have a sense of faith and honor, thinking that I can repay as much as I borrow, which is not not religious! Therefore, there is often a phenomenon of active overpayment.

This can easily be mistaken for "loan sharking".

Of course, there are also a considerable number of monasteries that openly lend usury, such as the monasteries in Dunhuang, where the interest rate on loans is 100 percent, far higher than the upper limit of 40 percent stipulated by the imperial court.

Therefore, Tang Xuanzong once issued an edict, thinking that the third-order religion was in the Huadu Temple in the capital: "On the fourth day of the first month of each year, the world's corporal women give money, called the protector of the law, saying that they help the poor and weak, and there are many traitors and deceptions, and if the matter is not true, it should be forbidden", so he ordered the endless collection of the third-order religion to be sealed, and all the money was taken out.

Therefore, Master Ming Xuan's immortal library should not only play the role of the Endless Treasure, but also avoid the criticism that the Endless Treasure has suffered.

After consulting with Xingyuan Yin Gaoyue, Master Mingxuan did so.

On the one hand, Huguo Temple continues to lobby the good men and women of Xingyuan Mansion to give alms, this point remains unchanged, the rich can donate forty or fifty Wen a day, among which Gao Yue takes the lead, donating one-tenth of the five thousand guan every year, and his wife Yun Shao will also donate one hundred guan from the fat powder money, as for the households and soldiers with poor economic conditions, you can donate even one piece of corn a year, this is not mandatory.

Huguo Temple Changsheng Library, the obligation to set up a dojo in the townships of Quanxing Yuanfu, the management of the Dojo Division, there is a "sad village" in the dojo, responsible for relieving widows and loneliness, and the dojo is located in the civil or military camp, the people and soldiers have excessive needs, Huguo Temple monks must also provide services free of charge, such as the white grass army and Tutuan that went to Xiaoguan and Mingsha before, and the more than 500 soldiers who died in battle were done by Huguo Temple.

In terms of loans, the Huguo Temple Changsheng Bank stipulates that the villagers where the dojo is located, "bearing" (borrowing) less than five yuan, must make a contract document, limit the repayment period, but do not need to pay interest, if the borrowed money is used to purchase six livestock, seeds, and farm tools, it can be relaxed to eight yuan; If you borrow 5 to 20 yuan, you will pay 10% of the interest, which is called "except for strange money"; For those from 20 to 50 percent, the interest rate will be increased by 15 percent.

The military government, wealthy merchants, officials and generals of Xingyuan Mansion can also store their wealth in the cabinet of the Changsheng Treasury, but unlike the cabinet in Chang'an that collects "cabinet money" (that is, the depositor has to pay a storage fee to the cabinet), after Gao Yue and Ming Xuan discussed, they did the opposite, and the bulk of the money and silk not only did not collect "cabinet money", but also returned to you three or five percent of the "general pot money" - to put it bluntly, it is somewhat similar to modern banks, which are used to gather private or official wealth and concentrate on doing big things.

As a result, Huguo Temple soon assumed the role of Xingyuan's financial center, and its Changsheng Treasury absorbed alms and cabinets on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was also using interest-free loans to help Xingyuan's Tianshi and households, shouldering the role of credit cooperatives and cooperatives.

Not only that, Gao Yue also asked Huguo Temple to play the role of disseminating knowledge and information to the bottom, he used the power of Xingyuan Yin to donate dozens of hectares of land to Huguo Temple at one time, and recognized that Huguo Temple hired "pure people" (that is, temple households, monks engaged in agricultural and commercial work are called impure things, so it is necessary to find special pure people to do it instead of them) to operate the field and make water, Huguo Temple can collect "Du Mu money", and can also collect "milling money" from the people who need water to grind wheat and rice during the harvest season—— However, Gao Yue also gave the temple a "wash" and a "koshiki book".

And the book and the book, in fact, are two books.

The former means that in the summer and autumn of each year, the Xingyuan Mansion can "make peace", that is, to "purchase" the grain produced by the Huguo Temple Temple at a low price, and the temple cannot raise the price; And the Keshiki book, that is, Xingyuan Mansion wants to collect some of the "special products" of Huguo Temple, which special products? It's very interesting, Gao Yue said that I only need a few things, Buddhist scriptures, almanacs and agricultural books, and you pay me according to the quota every year.

Ancient Chinese monks, some of them may be in the spring and white snow when they preach, and some of them are Xiariba people, but they are all intellectuals at that time without exception, many monks are proficient in philosophy, medicine, calendar, astronomy, machinery and other disciplines, Gao Yue can not let their talents waste, so he stipulates such a "science book".

Printing books at that time was a money-spent job, printed on Yangzhou bamboo paper, a Buddhist scripture or almanac, two or three times of money, which was difficult for ordinary people to afford, and now Gao Yue used the "Kefu" method to collect the books printed by the Buddhist temple, and then issued them to the township dojo free of charge, so that the people could read and learn.

Therefore, the implementation of the Wajimoto and the Koshiki is actually a disguised tax on the temple!

This was an unprecedented phenomenon in the entire Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Gao Yue and Huguo Temple are symbiotic and mutually beneficial, and the implementation has not been hindered, but when he supports Huguo Temple, he will draw a scoop according to the gourd and issue these two copies to other temples in Quanxing Yuanfu!

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