Chapter 237: A Harvest Year
In the third year of Kaiyuan, Buddhism, the largest force in the world, was finally eliminated, and what appeared in turn was a new Buddhism, and the practice of Zen Buddhism that did not eat for a day.
It was also from this year that whether it was a monk or a monk, only what the court said would count, and Buddhism became a science, no longer as before, containing too many other things.
Not only Buddhism, but also Taoism, both schools of Buddhism and Taoism, are included in the religious culture, and are the treasures of the wisdom of human civilization, but they are not the aggregate of interests.
In the culture of Buddhism and Taoism, the set of worshipping gods and Buddhas has been eliminated as the dregs of history, and all that is left is the various ideas in it.
This is exactly the change that Wang Daoming wants, and the change that Wang Daoming wants is never a small change in one or two places, but a big change that destroys the old order and establishes a new order from the roots.
This kind of change has never been to bring down some people, divide wealth equally, and let everyone live well, but to achieve great liberation from the spiritual level.
If you want to achieve the emancipation of the mind, the most important thing is to emancipate the mind.
Wang Daoming seeks innovation and change, and if he can't change in line with the times, he can only be eliminated by history, just like the old Buddhism.
The old forces have completely collapsed with the collapse of Buddhism, and the remnants of the old forces are either hidden in the shadows, or suppressed by the imperial court to transform their minds.
Those who are hidden in the shadows, just like the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, are quietly waiting for the opportunity, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms are waiting for the departure of the First Emperor, and now, those who are hiding in the shadows are also waiting for Wang Daoming to disappear.
Most of these people take the opportunity to incarnate into people who adapt to the times and change, and secretly continue to seize power, just waiting for Wang Daoming to disappear, it will make the current Great Song Dynasty, like the former Great Qin Empire, collapse.
They can use this to steal the highest power!
In this world, in the end, it is still only able to be appointed, and capable people, no matter where they are, can have more things than others.
And the remnants of the old forces are not poor in ability, they were born well, they have received the best education since childhood, and the level they see and do on weekdays are not what ordinary ordinary people can imagine.
They have ample opportunities to exercise their abilities, while ordinary people do not, except for a few natural geniuses, ordinary people simply cannot compete with these people.
These people adapt to change, but they are not willing to have so much and can get it for nothing, so why work hard?!
Huge wealth is never earned by hard work, but by oppressing others, even if a person works hard to accumulate wealth for a hundred years, it is not as good as squeezing a hundred people for two years.
But now, the rules formulated by Wang Daoming have undoubtedly cut off the way for these people to oppress, no one will be willing, as long as there is an opportunity, those people will definitely destroy the huge empire created by Wang Daoming!
In this change, after all, there is a future trouble, the wheel of history is rolling, in the end, there is no immortal dynasty, before the emergence of a perfect enough order, history will continue to reincarnate!
Wang Daoming naturally also saw the hidden dangers of the empire, he was thinking about the way forward, trying to think of a solution in the dark.
From Wang Daoming's experience, there has never been a country that has solved this problem.
Thousands of years later, there was an old man, faced with this problem, chose to destroy the kingdom he created with his own hands, and wanted to break it and stand up and be reborn from the ashes, but in the end it failed.
Now, Wang Daoming is also facing this problem!
Few people are aware of the problem yet, and everyone is fascinated by the sight of today's transformation and flowering in the midst of fire.
Under the change, ordinary people became rich, owned their own fields, and the court was exempt from taxes for three years, and then the taxes were only one percent, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is simply heaven, so good that it couldn't be better.
All of them are full of enthusiasm and anticipation for the future, working hard to create hope with their hands.
This year, the wind and rain are smooth, it is a good year!
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Under the scorching sun, Wen Tianxiang wore a gray hexagram sewn from linen, a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and two loads of rice on his shoulders, walking on the mountain road.
A year of wind, frost, snow and rain has made Wen Tianxiang's originally fair skin dark and rough, but it has also added a kind of stability to Wen Tianxiang's body.
It is better to read thousands of miles of books than to travel thousands of miles, and Wen Tianxiang now has a deep understanding.
In the autumn of a year ago, Wen Tianxiang entered Beijing to participate in the imperial examination, and with his extraordinary talent, he passed all the way and won the top prize in high school.
Originally, according to the previous rules, the champion was to enter the Hanlin Academy, which can be called the protégé of the Son of Heaven, generally according to the process, after two years of intensive cultivation in the Hanlin Academy, he will be assigned to be an official.
It's a pity that this time is different from the past, after Wen Tianxiang won the top prize in high school, not only did he not enter the Hanlin Academy, but he did not even canonize an official position, and after passing the palace examination, he was directly assigned to this remote mountain village called Qingshan Village, where he lived in the farmer's house in the village and helped the village farm.
A champion was sent to a mountain village to farm, which is an unprecedented thing, and when he first learned the news, Wen Tianxiang even thought that he had heard it wrong.
After confirming it again and again, Wen Tianxiang almost collapsed, and immediately composed a poem to express his nostalgia.
He went to Beijing to take the exam, hoping to serve the court and put his ability to use, but the court sent him to the mountain village to farm, Wen Tianxiang's resentment at that time can be imagined!
The only thing that made Wen Tianxiang feel a little comforted was that not only him, but also the candidates in the same class as him, all who had results were sent to the mountain village to farm.
The list eye of the same session as Wen Tianxiang is in the mountain village next door!
There were six candidates who were sent to the village with Wen Tianxiang, but now there are only three left, and three of them just arrived, so they couldn't stand the suffering and secretly ran away.
Wen Tianxiang also wanted to wave his sleeves directly at the beginning, the previous concept was that everything was inferior, only reading is high, if there is a meritorious name, it is even higher than the average reader, if it is not a last resort, there is no meritorious scholar will go to farming.
If this kind of thing spreads, I am afraid that it will be laughed at by the neighbors for a lifetime.
However, Wen Tianxiang is wise in the end, and after some careful thinking, he understands that the imperial court's approach must have other intentions, and the imperial court has no reason to bury so many candidates.
After working in the mountain village for a period of time, Wen Tianxiang suddenly found that many of his previous learnings had been verified, and he also had his own ideas about how to be an official and how to govern the country, and it was no longer the same set in the book.
It was only at this time that Wen Tianxiang realized that this was the tempering of the imperial court for them, and if they wanted to make a difference, what they read in the book alone would always be just talk on paper, only by going to the bottom level, understanding the situation, and seeing the subtleties, can they truly govern the country and level the world!
In the past, officials only occasionally went to the countryside to observe the people's conditions, which was better than directly planting land for a period of time, and the impression was profound.