"Abbot, please stay." "Senior Brother Huiming, be careful along the way." In front of the mountain gate of Changshou Temple, two old monks said goodbye to each other. From the perspective of the old monks outside the mountain gate, you can see that many monks, big and small, and novices are also sending each other.

After watching the lights, I carried out the Tang Dynasty K song movement with the big guys, and after the song. Li Chen and Lifan returned to the Longevity Temple. After the Lantern Festival this year, it is over.

After stepping on the song, Li Chen was in a good mood, well, people in the Tang Dynasty are really good at enjoying life, modern people go to KTV, it's great that seven or eight people are in a room, maybe more than ten, that's just K song. The people of the Tang Dynasty not only sang together in a group, but also took sports, and it was better to enjoy alone than to enjoy everyone.

After the New Year, at this time, Li Chen's predecessor, that is, the former tent room Huiming Bhikkhu, was going to go out to travel. His younger brother, the abbot of Changshou Temple, Hui Lin led the monks and novices in the temple to send each other off.

"Great monk, you are not young anymore, and now that the weather is cold, why do you have to choose to go out and travel now?" , Li Chen is persuading Hui Ming, with the identity of Hui Ming's former account room, and these days to give Li Chen guidance, Li Chen called him a great monk is not an exaggeration.

"It doesn't matter if it's cold, if you want to walk in the world and still be afraid of the cold, then you don't have to go." , Hui Ming smiled disapprerovingly, "Since I became a tent in the temple and trapped in the temple for so many years, Poor Dao has long wanted to go out, a little cold, Poor Dao can still stand it."

"Besides, if you don't leave, you'll have to be locked up in the temple for a few months and won't be able to go out." , and blinked naughtily after speaking. Watching laughing and leaving to get a good name, Li Chen almost laughed, it seems that he can go out and travel, let this

People are not old at heart, and they are in a very good mood.

The so-called "not going out for a few months" means that in the next few months, about three months of the whole winter, the monks of Changshou Monastery are not allowed to go out and have to retreat.

Well? No kidding, it's really going to be in retreat, but of course it's not martial arts, it's not Shaolin Temple, it's a retreat to practice Buddhism.

The official name is not called intensive training, but peaceful residence. It is divided into winter and summer, which is roughly the summer and winter. At this time, the monks in the temple are basically not allowed to go out, whether it is traveling or turning into a fate. Therefore, the old monk Huiming should take advantage of the fact that this winter peace residence has not started, and go out to travel. When it starts, you can't get out.

So, what do the monks do behind closed doors? As I said earlier, it is the intensive cultivation of the Dharma. As I said before, a formal bhikshu also has a vow, which will record what Dharma you know.

If you have read the Buddhist scriptures, you will understand that the Buddhist scriptures are very difficult to understand. Many texts are simply based on the Indian pronunciation and then replaced with homophones. Therefore, to be proficient in these classics, there is no other way than to read them like a fool, memorize them every day, and memorize them well.

Therefore, it is very important for a retreat study to allow everyone to recite sutras, sit in meditation, listen to lectures, and debate in peace. Staying in confinement allows monks to understand the Dharma more deeply.

In this way, a few months passed in a hurry, and spring came. There was a long queue in front of the gate of the Longevity Temple, "This old man, this is Wuguan, you let Ling Lang carry it." Next.'" , Li Chen lifted his spirits, took a sip of tea, and greeted the next person.

In front of the mountain gate of Changshou Temple, there is a long queue. What to do? Borrow money. Speaking of which, Li Chen complained about the inconvenience of the Tang Dynasty again. Copper coins are too heavy. Li Chen couldn't convert the weight of the Tang Dynasty into the modern weight, and he didn't know how many modern kilograms should be worth 1 piece of money.

It's just a rough idea that an ox cart can hold about 100 pieces. If you want someone to carry it, it is about 9 yuan, which can make an adult man carry it to death.

It's not a problem to carry it, the problem is that you have to carry it back. It's really carried back, Li Chen tried to memorize it, he can probably memorize it 14 times, but he is very tired. If you want to carry it to the town, you can only carry 11 yuan.

In the same way, if an adult man wants him to carry the money back, he will probably only be able to carry it eight times. So, you can see the one who picks up the money with a flat pole.

It's okay to pick up money, if you want to borrow grain, or borrow cloth, you can't go back without a car. Therefore, Li Chen has to complain about the Tang Dynasty every time, there are not enough coins, and the economy is not so developed, and its representative is that even cloth can be used as currency.

In the Tang Dynasty, money was scarce, and many poor and small places may not even have seen the money, and they are still in the barter stage. The money is so scarce that even the government has ordered everyone not only to trade money, but also to use cloth at the same time. This way you can spend a little less.

Really those economically developed areas are limited to big cities, and those places have flying money to use. In big cities like Guangzhou, Chang'an, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, etc., the real big deals will only happen in these places. Flying money is useful.

Speaking of which, in terms of overall economic strength alone, the Song Dynasty is probably far superior to the Tang Dynasty. The economic development gap between the Tang and Song dynasties, don't say anything else, just look at the use of coins.

Borrowing money to win people continues... There will be so many people, mainly because the winter residence of the longevity temple these days, although it is not a completely closed temple, but activities like the quality of the temple will not be carried out, how to say that this is a temple, not like the later generations, completely secularized.

Moreover, in fact, the saddest time for farmers is when they don't get it. At this time, the seedlings have just been planted, and then the previous harvest has been spent, and taxes are paid, New Year's Eve, and debts are paid. What's even more sad is that at this time, the midwinter has passed and everything is springing, but in fact, there are not many wild plants that can be found in the wild.

If farmers can't find temporary work, they often have to borrow money. Why did Wang Anshi implement the Seedlings Law? Seedlings mean only this time.

"Next." , Li Chen is listless, this kind of work is actually quite boring. It's just that he can't be absent, he has to be there.

"Bang." , a heavy sack, slammed into the iron table, making a dull sound, and Li Chen's spirit was shocked, "Bang." , before he could come back to his senses, there was another muffled sound. "Pay it back." , a rough man said angrily.

The mountain gate is wide open, not only to borrow money, but also to repay money, but this kind of person is very rare, and Li Chen has to be surprised, not only to repay the money, but also to pay it back, it seems that there is a lot of money.

"Count it quickly." , Needless to say, Li Chen came to help the bhikkhus, and began to count. Seeing Li Chen, he sighed again.

It's really inconvenient. Consistent money is a thousand dollars, and a dollar is a copper plate. The weight of a copper plate is not large, but when thousands of dollars are gathered together, it will cost several kilograms..., why didn't the Tang Dynasty have a large monetary unit.

In Li Chende's memory, let alone the Tang Dynasty, it has never appeared in Chinese history. Basically, it is a unit of currency in one copper coin.

Of course, he knew that after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, with the inflow of silver in large quantities, silver was used as currency. But the problem is that at that time, the Chinese did not think about minting any silver coins, and it was not until the late Qing Dynasty that there would be any dragons and yangs.

Is it called Long Yang? Li Chen can't remember clearly, anyway, it was not until the late Qing Dynasty that China had relatively large coins. It seems that the Qing government also issued gold coins.

It is not that there are no gold coins in Chinese history, but they have never been used as a currency in circulation. Basically, gold is made into the shape of a coin and used as a trading object. It was not a gold coin, but a gold nugget made in the shape of a pie. Unlike the West, commerce is developed, trade is vigorous, and there is no shortage of gold, silver, and copper coins.

You might say that paper money was the first in Chinese history. Large currencies with denominations of fifty, one hundred or even hundreds.

Well, for the latter, that's not the norm at all. It's all a government financial crisis, and if you want to cheat money in this way, what happened at the time, when it was 100, or even 500. It doesn't help at all except to cause inflation.

As for paper money, at that time, the imperial court seemed to treat him as a superior, and those big money were used, and they were issued indiscriminately without restrictions, even more convenient than big money, and when the printing press was started, the banknotes rolled in. In the end, it caused inflation.

"Aweng, this is your IOU, if that's right, please take it back. Next.'" The monk spent half a day counting the amount, and Li Chen returned the IOU.

"Bang." , There was another muffled sound, and Li Chen was quite surprised to have to pay back the money again. It's not the harvest season, and it's really not much to pay back now.

"This Lang Jun, this is a slave who has to pay off the debt." , Li Chen looked up and saw that it was a young woman, her appearance was not clear, because she was wearing a hat and a white veil to cover her face. The reason why he knows that it is a young woman is mainly because of her hairstyle, Li Chen doesn't know what hairstyle it is, but he has been in the Tang Dynasty for a while, and he knows that he can comb this hairstyle, and his identity should be that he is a young woman.

The young woman brought a maid and an ox-cart to repay the money. The maid was about twenty years old, and her strength was not small, and she seemed to be accustomed to rough work, and she could easily carry the money in her hand.

"This lady, please take it." After the monk counted it, Li Chen took out the IOU and returned it to the people, "Next." , although he said this, Li Chende's eyes were staring at the back of this wife.

(Strange, I think I've heard this sound before.) And then this name...), it is undeniable that this wife has a very good-looking back, and she walks with a swaying posture, like a weak willow supporting the wind, but that is not the reason why Li Chen looked at her.

After only a little look, Li Chen immediately retracted his gaze, and looked at it more, in case people thought he was too picky,

If you go to the abbot to complain, I'm afraid he will lose his job. He just glanced at a name in the account book, Zhang Qi Niang...