The king heard Yuexia say that there was a degree in the goods, and when he took it from Yuexia's hand, he saw that it was a piece of paper like a certificate. When I looked at the things in the package yesterday, I didn't look closely, thinking it was a silver ticket or something like Jiaozi, but today I took a closer look and it was really different.

This is a chapter of five-color gold flower silk paper, on which are written the names of monks and nuns, common names, identities (indicating the boy or practitioner and their titles), place of origin, age, the place of residence or the abbot (the name of the temple to enter), the scriptures recited, the name of the teacher, etc., and there is the approval of the ancestral department, the date of signing and the signature of the official, etc

Yuexia looked at the contents of the package and asked the king, "Where did these things come from?" ”

The king looked at it, and the name of the monk on the Du Mu was Jinghui, and the common name was Tongzhong, so he said, "This is the thing in the well of the privet view." Don't be angry, I heard yesterday that I was going to shoot at the Imperial Shooting, and I was worried that I would lose face if I lost, so I asked Xiao Lu to get the jade from my father-in-law. ”

"Phew, my father-in-law is very good, and I don't know how to be ashamed." Yuexia said with a soft smile. Wang Bei smiled and continued:

"When Xiao Lu took something, he brought this package, did you say that the thief stole and hid in that well, this thief is also strange, it's okay to steal something, what's the use of stealing a monk's certificate?"

Xiao Lu said: "I didn't notice this thing yesterday, this is a good thing." ”

The king looked at the degree carefully, and when he saw Xiao Lu asking, he also said: "The lady should know about this, but you can talk about it." ”

Yuexia was happy to hear the word "lady", but she still pouted and ignored the king, pretending to be angry, but she immediately smiled again, and talked about it.

"Needless to say, the benefits of Du Mu are naturally needless to say, after Du Mu receives it, he can avoid remote service without money, and the people don't have to say it. Monks and Taoists eat ten directions, monasteries have land, become monks, Taoist priests do not have to serve in the military, labor, do not be born in Ding Qian rice and other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, evade taxes, eat a bowl of ready-made rice, and become a legal nomad who eats without work. ”

Xiao Lu said: "I also know that the landlord also wants to save it." In order to protect the whole family property, you have to do everything possible to become an official household, and ask your children to study and become officials, if not, you have to pay money to buy official notices and become nominal official households. If not, it's better to buy Zhang Dumu. Because the temple property can be given rent-free. ”

The girl under the moon was not convinced: "I also know that with Dumu, I can protect the property and avoid the merger of the powerful family." In addition, there are many benefits, such as monks and Taoist priests are given preferential treatment in the law: "Monks, nuns, and Taoist priests have female crowns, and those who are civil and military officials below the seventh rank are guilty and are allowed to be redeemed." ”

The two of you say a word, and I say a sentence like a rush to answer, saying the many benefits of Dumu. Seeing this, Wang said: "I said how the lady wants to become a monk, it turns out that there are so many benefits. ”

Yuexia put down the gold and silver jewelry in his hand: "There are a lot of benefits, but it is not easy to become a monk now." It's one in a hundred. ”

Lu Shenyan also agreed: "It's good if it's not good." Childe will only joke, if he has been looking for the girl under the moon for so long, and the girl is a monk, Childe will not know how to be sad."

The king didn't deny it, he smiled, and Yuexia said: "Who said it's not easy to say, these things are enough to buy Zhang Dumu" She said, pointing to the gold and silver in the package.

"Can this kind of thing still be bought and sold?" The king asked Yuexia in surprise

Yuexia said: "I also heard from others, and I heard that it is still very expensive, and now it is better, and it takes thirty or forty times." ”

The price of a degree is so high, this is a bit unexpected by the king, he looked at the gold and silver in the package and this degree, and remembered the "Water Margin". In my previous life, I read Water Margin, and I remember saying:

The wine and meat monks Lu Zhishen and Wu Song swaggered through the market, and they didn't worry about the Kuaishou people coming to find trouble, because they all had a book, as Sun Erniang said: "And I have to make this book as a talisman...... Who dares to interrogate the way forward? "The difference is that Wu Song is an impostor, but Lu Zhishen is officially submitted by the Wenshu Monastery of Wutai Mountain.

I also remembered that there is another point in the book: Zhao Yuanwai "has bought a five-flower degree", and said that "the ancestral hall has already been made", indicating that the way is legitimate. After Luda shaved his hair, the first one presented the upper degree to ask the elders to give the name of the Dharma, and the elder took the empty head and said: "A little spiritual light, worth a thousand gold, the Dharma is vast, and the name and wisdom are profound." "Give it to the secretary and monk to fill it out and pay it to Lu Zhishen.

Thinking of this, Wang asked the two, "Is this a piece of rice that is on sale in the government?"

Xiao Lu shook his head: "The government has never sold it, most of it is resold by the people." ”

Wang asked the two of them again and didn't know much, back to the room, Wang next to pondered, this is a good monk, but now a degree of dozens of times, why the elder took an empty degree and said that it is a little bright, worth a thousand gold? What is the reason for this huge disparity?

However, curiosity is curiosity, and on the second day, Wang Fang still took Xiao Lu to Kaifeng Mansion together. The king is really too busy, and then he takes care of some idle things, this picked up something and confiscated it, as for what children, what Tianqing Temple is not the king's business.

Since Wang Bei resigned and went west, Lord Bao Zheng rarely saw Wang Bei, and he also missed it in his heart. Seeing that the envoy of the Liao Kingdom was very arrogant at first, but seeing the little guy next to the king with three arrows in succession, the arrow was shot, and the face of the envoy of the Liao Kingdom became more and more ugly, and Lord Bao Zheng became more and more happy.

Lord Bao's official position is quite high, and naturally he is closer to those foreign envoys, and those envoys have some discussions when they see the king next to him, and the chattering is all in bird language, and some of those envoys are ambassadors who know the Central Plains language, and some bring translators. Listening to the words, they are asking who this young man is.

Bao Zheng looked nervously at the king's side while listening to those conversations, does anyone still know Bao Zheng's fame? Naturally, it will be said that this little student is the righteous son of Lord Bao, seeing that the king won the messenger, a full house, Lord Bao is even more neck stalk, chest upright, and he is very proud of the king.

He just received the imperial decree early in the morning, and the emperor will summon him alone tomorrow, and Bao Zheng is thinking about how to deal with the matter of the Kowloon Cup in his heart. Seeing Wang Bian coming from outside, followed by Lu Shenyan and a woman. Xiao Lu was still carrying a package in his hand.

Seeing Lord Wang Panbao, he was very happy, put down the official document in his hand and said, "The side came just in time." ”

The king stepped forward to give a salute, these days he was busy with official business, busy socializing, and the New Year, and he hadn't talked to Master Bao for a long time as before. Bao Zheng said half-reproachfully: "You kid, aren't you crazy to play." I seldom see you here or on your father's side."

Wang Bi hurriedly smiled and said, "How dare you, child, aren't you busy getting your second elder's daughter-in-law back." As he spoke, let that Yuexia come forward to see Master Bao.

When Wang Fang just found Yuexia, Yuexia had a wound on her face, and Wang Pan was inconvenient to force her to come to see her, and recently the scar on her face healed Wang Pan thought that it was time to bring Yuexia with him. Bao Zheng had already heard that he had found the moon, and today he saw that the king would bring the moon, and he saw the daughter of the old man sighing in his heart.

After asking a few words about the marriage plan of the two, Master Bao saw that under the moon he was also a knowledgeable and sensible person, and he was also relieved.

Wang said to Bao Zheng: "Father-in-law, I dropped a jade in front of the dry well of the Privet Temple, and the day before yesterday I asked Lu Shenyan to pick it up, and I found something. Please take a look. ”

said that this Xiao Lu was included, and Lord Bao saw that there was a degree in it, so he called the master to make a confession for Xiao Lu.

Here, the king took the moon down to see the lady, the lady stayed in the room under the moon to talk, and the king went back alone to see Lord Bao. The confession had been recorded, and Master Bao said to the king: "You came just in time today, and you will definitely stay for half a day." ”

Wang Fang originally wanted to take Yuexia to Wang Anshi's mansion again, but when he heard Bao Zheng say this, he also wanted to ask about this degree. So he instructed Xiao Lu to bring the girl over first. After arranging the two people, the father and son next to King Bao Zheng came to the wing room of the hall, which was also decorated with some bookshelves and other things, and a tea set was placed on a half-immortal table, and the two sat opposite each other. In the stove in the room, the "incense cakes" sent by the king were burning.

During the chat, Bao Zheng mentioned: "This degree may lead to a case." "The king, please Bao Zheng for advice.

The family made tea for the two of them and retreated, and Wang poured tea for Lord Bao's tea cup and asked, "I heard that there is a reselling of Du Mu in the market, can my father-in-law say that it is this?" ”

Bao Zheng said: "This is one of them, the monks need to be slack with themselves, how can they be easily lost, and together with gold and silver, it may involve transactions." ”

Wang asked next to him: "How can there be a market transaction in this degree, isn't it difficult to become a monk?" ”

Bao Zheng said: "Song Zhenzong later to Wang Qinruo and Ding Wei as the prime minister, believe in Taoism and Buddhism, the first year of Dazhong Xiangfu (1008) called the book of heaven, Feng Taishan, worship Fenyang, the edict Ding Wei built the Yuqing Zhaoying Palace, extremely extravagant civil engineering, seven years to complete, there are nearly 3,000 houses, "small not medium-range, although the gold and blue has been, will be destroyed and rebuilt, there is a division does not dare to count its expenses." ”

In August of the third year of Jingde, Sun Zheng, the attendant of the prince's palace, proposed to Zhenzong that "please reduce the number of monks in the temple", restricting the temple to be built too much and the number of monks to increase too quickly. Zhenzong retorted: "As for the two sects of Taoism and interpretation, which are helpful to the world's teachings, people or prejudices are often slandered, and if monks and Taoist priests are misbehaved from time to time, Anke can abolish their teachings?"

This history is not clear to the king, but he has also heard that Shinshu's policy on the construction of monasteries in various places is also more relaxed than in the past.

I also heard Bao Zheng say: "Zhenzong has contributed a lot to Buddhism in the past few years, but because he is a monk, he can be exempted from taxes, and many people are in the name of becoming a monk, and the state treasury is empty. Zhirenzong still worships the religion, but strengthens the assessment of monks, and has clear regulations on the qualifications of monks. And no longer increase the number of monks. ”

When Wang heard this, he seemed to understand that this was caused by the limit, and he could not fill the number indiscriminately, and said: "It's a good thing to be stricter." ”

Bao Zheng said: "I heard that Renzong still has the intention of streamlining the monks in the temple, so there are some lawless people in the market who resell the Du Mu, or some people commit crimes to find Du Mu to escape. ”

Wang Fang thought that there should be a crime evasion, otherwise there would be no Lu Zhishen and Wu Song and the like in the future, but listening to Bao Zheng's words, he also understood why Du Mu would be fried at such a high price later.

Wang has experienced this, thinking that a few years before 2012, when the number of taxi operation qualifications in a city was limited, an operating license was six times. From 100,000 to about 600,000 at once. But how could this degree be at that price, and it was an official thing, Wang Bian began to wonder if he could start from an official point of view.

Just pondering, he suddenly heard Bao Zheng's words and said: "Today's matter of seeing the degree, I remembered that there was something involved. Emperor Zhenzong treated the Japanese slave monks with special courtesy, and issued an edict to give the Dharma name Master Yuantong, and gave purple robes to give honors. ”

Hearing Bao Zheng mention the Japanese slaves, Wang Fang thought that the Japanese slaves did not come to worship this time, so he asked: "Father-in-law, why didn't the Japanese slaves come to worship this year?" ”

Bao Zheng said: "This is exactly what I want to tell you, this matter is related to my face, you can listen to it and have a good solution." ”