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"I wonder why you're here?"

Although Xie Shen's voice was calm, it revealed a momentum unique to a superior person.

The leader snorted coldly and said, "This house is owned by Tanzhe Temple, and now that the lease has expired, we have to take it back." It looks like you were subleased from that Chen Xiucai. That's fine, give you three days to move out of the house quickly. ”

Xie Shen couldn't help frowning. These people are people from Tanzhe Temple?

But seeing that they don't look like people in Buddhism at all, could it be that Tanzhe Temple has also begun to accept lay disciples?

As he thought to himself, the leader was a little impatient.

"What, you don't agree?"

After speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to ask.

The two guards of the Xie Mansion immediately stepped forward, and the guards around Xie Shen were ready to protect their master's thoughtfulness at any time.

"You said that this house belongs to your temple, is there any evidence?"

Xie Shen couldn't help but have a big head, there were nearly 10,000 Buddhist temples in the Ming Dynasty, and there were several hundred Buddhist temples in Beijing.

These temples all have a lot of land under their names.

This is also thanks to Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, Ming Taizu once promulgated a rule: "Qin gives land, taxes and grain are exempted; The permanent residence in the fields, although there is a grain tax, is still exempt from miscellaneous servitude."

This means that all the land given by the emperor to the monastery is exempt from paying taxes, and as for the land for permanent residence, it is necessary to pay taxes, but it is not required to participate in forced labor.

Ordinary small temples generally only have permanent living fields. However, a thousand-year-old temple like Tanzhe Temple, which has a deep relationship with the royal family, must have a large number of fields.

No wonder he only spent five hundred taels of silver to buy this elegant house, it seems that there is a dispute over property rights.

Xie Shen estimated that this house might really belong to Tanzhe Temple, otherwise the other party would not have come to the door.

It's just that he doesn't know whether the land occupied by this house is a given field or a permanent land.

"Evidence? It's the title deed! ”

After speaking, the meaty-faced man took out a title deed and shook it in front of Xie Shen.

Looks like this is coming prepared.

Xie Shen couldn't help but have a big head, he also read the deed when he bought this house, why now Tanzhe Temple also took out a deed.

Could it be that the man who sold him the house forged a title deed in order to get rid of the house as soon as possible?

The cross-meat man snorted and said, "The person who sold your house is surnamed Chen?" ”

Xie Shen nodded: "Exactly." ”

"That's it. He rented the house from the temple for three years. Now that three years have passed, Master Huikong has asked me to wait and take back the house. ”

That's outrageous, isn't it? He had only heard of second-hand landlords renting out, but he had never heard of those who could be resold directly.

Thinking that Xie Shen Yingming I was pecked by a sparrow in the end, he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Xie Shen knew that most temples would rent out excess land and real estate to collect rent, and this Tan Zhe Temple seemed to be the same.

As for these visitors, it is estimated that they cooperated with Tanzhe Temple to collect rent, and this kind of occupation was very common in the Ming Dynasty.

He smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that there is some misunderstanding, I don't know where Master Huikong is now, I want to pay a visit." ”

The cross-meat man who collected the rent nodded and said, "It doesn't seem like you're lying like this, okay, let's come with a certain family." ”

Xie Shen couldn't help but sigh.

The world is like this, and even in the deep mountains, disputes are inevitable.

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As the presiding officer of Tanzhe Temple, Master Huikong is in charge of all the important affairs of the temple.

This naturally includes the leasing of land and common land.

Therefore, Xie Shen had no problem going directly to Master Huikong, but he waited a little after entering the monastery, because Master Huikong was sitting in meditation.

By the time Master Huikong's zazen was over, Xie Shen was finally able to have a good chat with the helmsman of Tanzhe Temple.

Of course, Xie Shen didn't have the leisure to discuss Buddhism with Venerable Huikong, and he explained his intention straight to the point and asked for a solution.

Master Huikong was silent for a long time, clasped his hands together and said, "Amitabha, Xiao Tanyue, your temple is also responsible for this matter. It's better to do this, the old monk gave two ways, and Xiao Tanyue saw which one was acceptable. ”

After a pause, Master Huikong continued: "This first method is for the temple to sublease the house to Xiao Tanyue, and the rent will remain the same. ”

Xie Shen shook his head and said, "Master, what about the second way?" ”

Master Huikong said in a harmonious voice: "The second way is that Xiao Tanyue will buy this house and pay a thousand taels of silver." ”

Hey, this old monk is really direct, and he doesn't hide it at all.

A thousand taels of silver is really nothing to Xie Shen, and what he is entangled with is that he was put on a fake land deed by a shameless tenant, which is really depressing.

However, this fault obviously should not be recorded on the head of Tanzhe Temple.

The other party was willing to sell the house to him for 1,000 taels of silver, which was enough to save face.

"Okay, I'll choose the second option."

Master Huikong nodded and said, "The old monk saw that this little Tan Yue was kind, so he gave this string of Buddha beads to Xiao Tan Yue. I hope that Xiao Tanyue can study Buddhism and cultivate his self-cultivation. ”

Xie Shen said in his heart, is this a value-added service for buying a house?

"But the old monk also has one thing to ask for."

"Mage, please."

Xie Shen knew that things would not end so simply, so he asked patiently.

"Can Xiao Tanyue promise the old monk that the acres of land under the jurisdiction of this temple are not included in the acres of Qingzhang fields?"

Xie Shen's heart sank when he heard this.

The land system of the Ming Dynasty was extremely complex, and there were many preferential and tax-exempt land.

But broadly speaking, it can be divided into three parts. One of them is the land in the name of a famous scholar. This is the largest piece, and it is also the most important thing to re-clear the fields.

The second is the farmland given by the Son of Heaven. Zhuangtian can be divided into two kinds, one of which is Xungui Zhuangtian, which was given the most during the Zhu Yuanzhang period. During the Ming Xuanzong period, there was another small outbreak. But at present, Xungui is declining, and there are fewer and fewer Xungui Zhuangtian, and the real killer is Wangfu Zhuangtian.

The Ming Dynasty had extremely strict control over the vassal kings, and was basically in captivity.

The vassal kings did not have any chance to display their ambitions, so they could only eat and wait for the dead to have children.

More and more children are born, and the number of people in the Ming clan has also exploded geometrically.

Every clan member received a fortune from birth, and the court was responsible for weddings and funerals.

On top of that, Wong Fu Grange also enjoys preferential tax exemption treatment. Such a heavy burden completely crushed the imperial court, and at the end of the Ming Dynasty, contradictions also broke out. But that's all for later, so I won't show it for the time being.

As for the third piece, it is the land in the name of the temple. To be precise, it is the part of the land that is given to you.

These three types of land are all tax-exempt, and the imperial court can greatly alleviate the conflict if it eats a piece and divides it equally among the people.

Xie Shen moved first, and the other two did not think of a specific solution.

Unexpectedly, the host of this Tanzhe Temple was so well-informed, and he took the initiative to come to the door before Xie Shen studied the plan.

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