"Your Majesty, but there have been strong rumors about the forbidden Buddha path recently?"

Luo Cheng smiled, "People with hearts deliberately spread rumors, I have never said that I want to ban Buddhism, nor have I thought about it, let alone have such plans." However, you grew up in the temple, but you should have heard that there are also harmful horses in Buddhism, such as Maitreya in Buddhism, and they have made chaos several times, and in Taoism, there are also things like Sun Enshi Feng Wudou Rice, who rebelled in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. ”

Monk Xu listened to this, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although he was still vulgar, but for Buddhism, the status in his heart was still extremely heavy, and it was difficult to give up, like a blood vessel.

"The excessive worship of Buddhism in the Sui and Yang periods has indeed led to the chaos and disorder of Buddhism, a large number of private temples, and many criminals and scoundrels pretended to be monks, doing illegal things, corrupting the Buddhist atmosphere, and causing a very bad impact. Therefore, the imperial court should introduce laws and regulations to manage them, rather than prohibiting them by rumors. ”

The four levels of the imperial court, the province, the county, and the county will set up a special management agency for the monks and the Taoists, responsible for managing the temples and Taoists in the world, so all the temples and temples in the world must be registered, and all the monks and Taoists must also be registered and issued to the spectrum.

"Temples with less than 20 people will be retained, but temples with more than 100 people will be divided. For the empty temple temple after the merger, it will be destroyed. ”

"All the existing temples and temples must be registered, and the existing monks must also be registered, and go through a special Buddhist and Taoist examination, and those who pass the examination will be issued a degree, and those who do not understand the Buddhist scriptures and teachings will naturally be unqualified, and will be forced to return to the vulgar."

In addition, the imperial court also issued a law, stipulating that the illegal temples that occupy fertile land and occupy civilian land shall be demolished, and at the same time, specific standards have been made for the decoration, utensils, and scale specifications of the temples, and those who violate the rules will be demolished and banned.

Specifically, it is stipulated that the temple view shall not be raised to the arch, shall not paint the beams, in addition to the original, shall not cast bronze statues, gild, painted and so on.

The capital has a Sangha Division and a Daolu Division, and officials are sent to take charge of the affairs of the world's monks and Taoists. At the provincial level, there are Sangha Recording Bureaus and Daolu Bureaus, at the county level, there are Sangha Recording Offices and Daolu Offices, and at the county level, there are also Sangha Recording Rooms and Taoist Recording Rooms.

Monks at all levels manage the yamen, and the chief officials are all appointed officials of the imperial court, and a famous monk will be selected among the adjutants.

These monks and Taoist officials have no wealth, and they have special official robes and seals, and their grades are regarded as goods.

The monks and monks at all levels are specially responsible for the management of Buddhist affairs, such as the registration and management of temples, such as the management of monks and disciplines, shaving examinations, etc., and those who violate the law and discipline of monks and Taoists are also handed over to them for special handling.

In addition, there is a special provision, that is, women are forbidden to burn incense and worship the Buddha in the temple, and women are only allowed to go to the nunnery and the female Taoist temple, and the violators who burn incense and the temple will be punished.

The scale of the temple view is also divided into three categories: large temple view, medium temple view, and small temple view, with 50 to 100 people for the big temple, 30 to 50 people for the middle temple view, and 20 to 30 people for the small temple view.

Each temple must have a monk in strict accordance with its own level, not exceeding, only when there is a vacancy, can be shaved again, but also through the imperial court monk and the yamen of the assessment and permission can be.

At the same time, the imperial court also stipulated that the temples in each county also adopted the method of mutual protection of ten monasteries, that is, ten monasteries of the same scale were linked to mutual protection and mutual supervision, so as to prevent illegal things such as shaving monks and morals without permission, accommodating prisoners without permission, and taking land with loans without permission.

If one company violates the law, the others must be exposed, and if one is discovered, the other nine who do not report it will also be punished.

In the monasteries, there is also a method of sitting together, ten people in a row, supervising each other, no collusion with women, no resting spies, no shelter of thieves and criminals, no meat banquets, no gambling, no occupation of tenants' property, no wandering around········

Each monk is awarded an oil plaque with the age, appearance, place of origin, etc., which is checked by officials from time to time.

For the punishment of illegal monks, there are prison sentences and labor reforms, deprivation of pedigrees, and confiscation of military streams.

"There is no place outside the law in Daqin, there are no people outside the law, and Buddhism and Taoism are no exception."

The ultimate purpose of management is to return the Buddha to its origin, you can worship the Buddha and believe in the Tao, as long as you persuade people to be good and not preach evil, as for the rest, you should not be involved.

"The amount of each monk's field is ten acres, and those who are insufficient will not increase, and those who exceed will be recovered. If the temple property is rented to the people, the land will be directly recovered and granted to the people. ”

This one is the most ruthless, allowing the monks of the temple to own the land, but at most the upper limit of ten acres per person, and not allowed to collect rent, can only be planted by themselves, and they must be taken back if they do not plant.

According to such new regulations, the Shaolin Temple has hundreds of monks, and they also have a large number of slaves, also known as the Jingren, and the Shaolin Jingren have thousands, all of whom are slaves in the temple, doing some farming, sprinkling and sweeping affairs.

They have more than 30,000 acres of land, and there is also a large amount of temple property for lending, and there is a pledge bank that collects mortgage loans.

"Because Shaolin has meritorious, I plan to keep a hundred monks in Songshan Shaolin, and the rest of the monks are to let them go to the border to build new temples and persuade them to be benevolent."

The Shaolin Temple in Songshan left them a hundred monks, which is the upper limit of the highest monks in the big temple, and the hundreds of people who exceeded were arranged to build a new temple in North Korea, Saiwai, Yunnan, Qinghai and other places.

Of course, the hundreds of monks in Shaolin Temple also have to be assessed.

There are some Buddhist scriptures that do not understand the meaning at all, and this kind of persuasion should be persuaded to return to the vulgar, and the pure people in their temple, that is, all the temple slaves in the temple, should be exempted and returned to the good.

Of the tens of thousands of acres of land in the temple, 1,000 acres were left for the temple, and the rest was taken back to the imperial court. Of course, the imperial court openly said that they were given a replacement of land on the border to build a branch temple and purchase a new temple field.

Of course, even if only 1,000 acres of land are left, there are still two taxes to be paid, the same is to collect rent per mu, the rent rate is the same, and the temple must also levy household tax according to the scale of property in the temple.

Monk Xu was stunned.

This new rule of law is simply too strict.

Although it was not a robbery like Wang Shichong, it gave them one curse after another.

"Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, when returning to the origin, monks and Taoists should also return to faith, secular things, or leave it to the imperial court!"

Luo Cheng said a word, so that Monk Xu didn't know how to justify.

"Monk Xu, you are now an official of the imperial court, but you are also from Shaolin, so this time the imperial court asked you to bring the proclamator back to Shaolin to help read out the new rules and explain them to the abbots and elders in the temple."