Li Xiao set up a banner to recruit workers at Zhongwei Bridge, and it soon spread to Chang'an City.

After all, Zhongwei Bridge is one of the roads that must be passed in the north of Chang'an, and it is also close to Chang'an, and the news spreads quickly.

In the Taiji Palace, after Li Zhi heard the report of the Baiqi Division, he just smiled slightly, "I have been busy in the past few days, but I have forgotten Li Xiao and his printing office, and the money promised to him for other purposes is estimated that he is very unhappy." ”

Wu Shi held his stomach and said to his husband with a smile, "Li Sanlang's ability is not small, and if Your Majesty doesn't give him money, it won't be difficult for him." You see, without your internal government money, Li Xiao did not still set up a recruitment flag, and people borrowed the money of the corn supervisor to recruit hungry people, and still began to build a printing bureau workshop, and did a good job. ”

The imperial court used work for relief to help more and more hungry people outside Beijing, and Li Xiao also began to work for relief, which was no slower than that of the imperial court. Even the imperial court has not yet begun to recruit homeless people to build palaces, and Li Xiao's side has started first.

"I also gave an edict to the craftsmen and Shaofu Temple, so that they can send some craftsmen over, and the folk husband Li Xiao has it, but the craftsmen and craftsmen still have to be transferred by them."

Wu smiled and said, "Li Xiao borrowed the money from the corn prison, and the annual interest was doubled, and the concubine still had a few thousand yuan here, which could just be lent to the printing bureau to make a profit." ”

"Aren't you afraid of losing your capital?"

"Li Xiao has a great ability to make money, how can he lose money, you see that he is presiding over the corn prison, doesn't he take the corn supervisor Yu to make a lot of money?"

Li Zhi snorted, "Li Xiao secretly sold a lot of corn seeds behind my back, and I don't know, but I also know that he is not greedy for ink, so I don't bother to pursue it." ”

"Your Majesty, when the water is clear, there are no fish, Li Xiao is a person who can do things, why should he care about some details?"

Li Zhi nodded, he is also a person who believes in Li Xiao's ability, but it is a pity that last time he used Li Xiao to slap the face of the old scholar clan and make him a thorn in the side of the scholar clan, or this time Li Zhi repaired the Daming Palace, he planned to let Li Xiao, the secretary and young eunuch, be responsible.

"Since the concubine is willing to take out her own fat powder money, then I will make up some more, and make up 5,000 yuan for Li Xiao. There are too many, and I can't take it out. ”

Now that there are so many things, although Li Yifu proposed to issue two million bonds, this money has long been useful, and it will be used to repair the Daming Palace with work, and Li Zhi has no money left over for Li Xiao for the time being. Originally, he planned to suspend the printing bureau's book printing plan, but seeing that Li Xiao could still hold on, he planned to take another look.

Zhongwei Bridge.

The eldest princess of Lantian Tamase was dressed in a Taoist robe and arrived on horseback. Behind her, there were several ox carts.

"San Lang, I heard that you are here to give soup to the victims, so I will send some food."

Li Xiao was a little surprised when he saw the sudden arrival of Tamase.

Looking at the sacks of grain on the ox cart, I was even more moved. This year, Tamase was also a disaster-victim, and her fief was handed over to Li Xiao to manage, and Li Xiao originally said that he would guarantee the harvest of the food estate, but the result was a catastrophe. Tamase took the initiative to exempt the tenants from renting in the summer, which can be regarded as allowing Li Xiaofu to bear a lot of losses.

After all, it was originally agreed that the princess handed over the tax of the closed household to Li Xiao to manage and collect, and Li Xiao gave the princess a fixed amount of tax, and the princess took 20% of the income as Li Xiao's reward. But this year, the closed households are about 20% of the harvest, how can they pay the full rent?

But because Li Xiao is chartered, this loss was originally to be borne by Li Xiao.

But the princess exempted the feudal households from taxes, which saved Li Xiao from losses, otherwise this loss would not be small.

The princess confiscated not a single grain of grain rent this summer, and the ox cart was full of her own grain from the princess's estate.

"Thank you, princess, I asked someone to give you an IOU, which is borrowed from our printing office."

"What kind of IOU, just a little bit of food."

"It's not a little, and now food is expensive." Li Xiao sighed that with a large number of hungry people pouring into Chang'an, the food pressure in Chang'an is not a little bigger, and the price of grain is rising steadily.

Even if the imperial court keeps releasing grain, it can't beat the soaring grain prices.

"It's not all mine, I'll introduce you to a few good people." Tamase said with a smile, and at this time, several people came out behind her, all of them in Taoist uniforms.

"This is Daoist Chen of Chang'an Louguan Dao, and all the Taoist friends of Louguan Dao."

Known as Chen Daochang, he was an old man of about fifty years, tall and elegant, with a long beard, a Taoist robe, a dusty hand, and a sword on his back.

After all, in Chang'an City, there are many Taoist temples, and the largest and most famous of them is naturally Louguan Dao, which was the Taoist temple respected by the ancestor Li Yuan back then, and was specially invited by the royal family and built a Taoist temple for them.

In fact, when it comes to Louguandao, we have to talk about the development and changes of the organizational form of the family.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Taoist system gradually emerged, and before that, the Taoist officials and Taoist people of Wudou Midao had a room dedicated to self-blame and repentance, called the Jing Room, or the Jing Room. The quiet room set up by a certain level of Taoist officials at home is called governance, which probably has something to do with the Taoist officials' governance of the Taoist people.

There are different levels of governance, and the twenty-four rulers under the direct control of the Heavenly Master are equivalent to the office locations of the administrative region, but they are just some thatched huts or tiled houses.

These rules are also the prototype of Chinese Taoist palace architecture.

Wudou Midao stipulates that the people of the province are convened on several specific days every year, and the activities of worshipping the ancestors, paying the rice money tax, and registering the population are held with the 24 Zhizhi as the center, and this set of organizational structures is also used by them to control the activities of the disciples.

Later, Taoist halls arose, and Taoism also moved from a state of civil secrecy to social openness and officialization.

The Taoist hall built in the city was mainly supported by the supply of the imperial court and the alms of the nobles and wealthy people, and a small part of it came from the income from doing things for others.

Some of the local Taoist temples have households assigned by the government, most of these households are scattered near the Taoist hall, cultivating land for the Taoist hall, and the Taoist priests are also engaged in labor, and the highest-ranking hall owner is in charge of all the property owned by the pipe hall, including the real estate, and gradually became a part of the feudal monk landlord class.

The rise of Taoism weakened the original organizational form of the Heavenly Master Dao, which was characterized by the sacrificial wine system.

Louguandao belongs to the Gongguan school in the Taoist hall.

According to Lou Guan Dao, their ancestor is Yin Xi. This is the Western Zhou Dynasty Hangu Guan Ling, he once built grass for the building in the north of the South Mountain, and watched the stars on it at night, which is also the origin of the name of the building. Later, Lao Tzu rode a young man through the Hangu Pass, welcomed Lao Tzu to Louguan, learned Taoism from him, and Lao Tzu taught the Tao Te Ching, and later Yin Xi became an immortal in Louguan Dao.

Of course, this statement is actually the deification of Lou Guan Dao on his own sect.

In fact, the real history of Louguan Dao began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, when the first was a Taoist priest named Liang Kan, who took his apprentice Wang Jia to live in seclusion in Zhongnan Mountain.

Wang Jiahou passed on Sun Che, Sun Che passed on Ma Jian, Ma Jian passed on Yin Tong, and then passed on Yin Faxing, Niu Wenhou and others. Niu Wenhou preached the king's morality, which lasted until the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Yuan Dynasty was merged into the Quanzhen Dao.

From the Wei and Jin dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, there were many famous Taoist priests among the descendants of Louguandao, through their activities, the ruling class of the dynasty often gave Louguandao generous treatment, rewarded a large number of money, land and households for servitude, the Taoist temple building of Louguandao continued to increase and repair, and gradually became the largest Taoist center in the north at this time.

Louguan Dao integrates the classic teachings of various sects, and widely attracts the teachings of various sects in the south and north, and what they most vigorously promote is the story of Taishang Laojun teaching the Tao Te Ching, and the two of them went to the Western Regions to become a Buddha together.

It can be said that Louguan Dao is the most important Taoist school that arose after the Heavenly Master Dao in the Tang Dynasty.

The story of Lao Tzu and Yin Xihua Hu is actually quite interesting.

Buddhism originated in India, and in the Central Plains, it is also known as the religion of the Hu people, and it is a foreign culture, and its introduction will inevitably encounter resistance from the local Chinese culture.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Xiangkai recommended the "Taiping Sutra" to the emperor, he said, "Or Lao Tzu entered Yidi as a floating slaughter". Futu is the Buddha, which is just to say that Lao Tzu went to a "foreign country" and became a Buddha, which is different from Lao Tzu's statement of turning into a Hu. Whether Lao Tzu became a Buddha, or Lao Tzu passed on Buddhism to the Hu people in order to educate them, it is not clear who first put forward this kind of statement. Perhaps at the beginning of the introduction of Buddhism, Buddhism deliberately made up this kind of statement in order to preach smoothly, which means that our Buddhism was also introduced by Lao Tzu in China, and Lao Tzu in China is also a Buddha, so don't treat us as "Hu Jiao". But later, Taoism liked to mention this matter the most. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Wudou Midao Sacrifice Wine King Fu specially compiled the "Huahu Sutra" to promote this story, belittle Buddhism, and say that the Buddhist Shakyamuni is a disciple of Lao Tzu in order to elevate his status. Your Buddhism is still passed down from our ancestors, what's the big deal!

After the power of Buddhism became greater, it also fought-for-tat, forged scriptures, and made up the story of the Buddha sending Confucian Bodhisattva Confucius, Guangjing Bodhisattva Yan Yuan, and Mahaka Ye Laozi to China to preach. Confucius, Yan Yuan, and Lao Tzu, whom the Chinese worship, are all described as disciples of the Buddha.

Taoism attacks Buddhism for shaving monks, not getting married, and not having offspring, saying that the reason why Lao Tzu set up these canons and teachings for the Hu people that are not in line with Chinese etiquette and morality is that he saw that the Hu people were too barbaric and uncivilized, and wanted them to become extinct, so he told them not to marry men and women, and if a country believed in Buddhism, it would naturally perish. Seeing that the other party was so rude and rude, Buddhism also spoke ill of each other, and tried its best to denounce Taoism's cultivation methods and practices. The two religions attacked each other, both with the aim of overwhelming each other and gaining the support of the rulers in order to expand their own power.

Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed Buddhism in fact, the ruling class was dissatisfied that Buddhism was too strong, and encircled and suppressed Buddhism with the support of the Buddha and Taoism.

Buddhism flourished in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it also led to the destruction of Buddha several times, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan even had the intention of destroying Buddha when he was in power, but later the change of Xuanwumen, Li Yuan became the emperor, and the new successor Li Shimin canceled Li Yuan's will to destroy Buddha in order to stabilize the hearts of the people and win support.

But after all, after the Li family calls itself Lao Tzu, of course, they want to support Taoism.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, Li Yuan invited Louguandao to come to Chang'an, and established a great Louguandao temple for them in Chang'an City.

Louguandao has a respected status and wealth, and they have a lot of land under their names, and a large number of people assigned to them to work for them, and they have become non-tax households of the imperial court.

Wealthy Taoist priests also like to give porridge and grain when they encounter disasters and famines, which is actually just an act of buying people's hearts and competing for faith with monks.

Back then, Emperor Taiwu of Wei destroyed the Buddha, ordered hundreds of thousands of monks and nuns to return to the world, and destroyed the Buddha and the temple. Emperor Wu of Zhou came again, but the monks also quickly found the opponent of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Northern Qi, Emperor Wen of Qi under the instigation of the monks, issued an edict to abolish the Tao, ordered all Taoist priests to shave their hair as monks, and cut off their heads if they did not comply, so that there was no Taoist priest left in the Northern Qi at that time.

This is also a strange thing at that time, the Northern Zhou in the west destroyed the Buddha, drove all the monks and nuns down the mountain, let the monks and nuns get married and have children, and the Northern Qi in the east simply let all the Taoist priests shave their heads and become monks.

When the Sui Dynasty came to the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty respected Buddhism, after all, Emperor Wen of Sui was born in a Buddhist temple and was even raised by a nun when he was a child.

But in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Gaozu revered Taoism again and recognized Laozi as the ancestor of the Li family.

In fact, the rise of Louguan Tao was the intention of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty to destroy the Buddha and suppress the Buddha with the Tao. It was from that time that Louguan officially formed a considerable number of Taoist schools that had great influence on the government and the opposition, and in the Tang Dynasty, Louguan Taoism reached a peak after decades of Li Tang's reverence.

Lou Guandao is very rich, Li Xiao looked at the truckloads of grain, just now he thought it was too much, but now he feels less.

That Chen Laodao seemed to feel what Li Xiao meant, and explained with a smile, "I'm waiting to return to Chang'an from Zhongnanshan, and I met the eldest princess on the way, so I came by the way. ”

It is said that under the leadership of Taoist Qihui, Louguandao vigorously sponsored Li Yuan to raise troops, and gave no less money and food, and even contributed to public opinion propaganda, so after Li Yuan became emperor, he also favored Louguandao. Later, he decreed to change the view of the building to the concept of the sage, with Qihui as the master, and gave countless silk to fill the fast.

During the reign of Li Yuan and Li Shimin's father and son, they went to Louguan several times in person to worship Lao Tzu. Qi Hui died in the fourth year of Zhenguan, by the Taoist priest Yin Wencao appointed the master of Haotian Guan and the knowledge of the sect of the Holy Temple, Yin Wencao in accordance with Li Shimin's edict, the edict of Li Shimin, the author of the "Xuanyuan Emperor Shengji" a volume, all ten volumes, a total of 100 articles, and then wrote "Dispel Confusion" and "Eliminate Demons" 30 volumes, and continued "Louguan Ancestor Biography" a volume.

This Daoist Chen is Yin Shicao's junior brother.

When Li Xiao heard this, he immediately thought of a way to make money.

"Daochang Chen, do you need to print scriptures? My printing office has just opened, and I will give you special offers. There are 3,000 copies of the Tao Te Ching, and only 500 of them will be accepted from you, how about it? ”

A Tao Te Ching is only 5,000 words, one can be printed, 20 editions are enough, the cost of printing 3,000 copies is less than 200 yuan, and the collection of 500 yuan is double the money.

Just take them to practice, not to mention, Lou Guandao is so rich, if this single transaction is done, there will be a big order in the future.

In recent years, monks and Taoist priests have been much richer than the government.

"Three thousand copies of the Tao Te Ching are only five books?" That Chen Daochang obviously didn't know how to do business, and when he heard this price and thought of it, he couldn't help but exclaim. Looking for a scribe to copy the Tao Te Ching, 3,000 copies can not get less than 2,000 yuan, and the printing is only one of the four, which is really cost-effective.

Chen Daochang's heart was moved.

In these years, although Louguandao was revered by the royal family, the strength of Buddhism has always been very strong, and the battle between Buddhism and Taoism has never stopped.

In addition to enlisting the support of the imperial court, how to get more support from the people is also very important, and spreading more Taoist scriptures is an important way.

The Tao Te Ching is the Taoist classic that Lou Guan Dao believes in the most.

"Is Secretary Li serious?"

"Three thousand Tao Te Ching, five hundred yuan, no two words." When Li Xiao saw Chen Laodao's excited appearance, he knew that he had lost money, and he should have opened a higher price.