"Ping'er, how can this money be more and more insufficient!" Li Yuanji asked, looking at the budget sheet in his hand.

originally thought that Tang Ping had done all kinds of sponsorships and program activities, etc., and 10 million could still be used in their hands.

As a result, the people below summed up the expenses and found that there was a difference of almost 10 million.

Tang Ping sighed: "Yes, there are places where you can settle for a while, but you don't want to settle." After going back and forth, I realized that the money was spent more and more. ”

"So what now?" Li Yuanji shook the budget table in his hand: "Where else can I grab ...... No, can you sponsor us a little? ”

Tang Ping pondered for a moment, looked at Li Yuanji and said, "Why don't you donate some third uncle?" ”

"Okay!" Li Yuanji agreed: "I can give out a million, you know, no more." ”

Tang Ping nodded, Li Yuanji has done a lot of water production in recent years, but now he has done his business in Fusang and Ozhou Road, and the initial investment in this business is still not small.

So it's good to be able to take a million out.

As for Li Jiancheng and Li Xuanba, one is not very involved in these business things, and the other is looking for fights on the borders outside every day, which is not counted on.

There is also an emperor Li Shimin, don't look at his name as Tian Khan, saying that it is not the king's land under the whole world, but there are too many people to raise, and the inner treasury has not been very rich.

"Forget it, let's go to the palace." Tang Ping thought about it, this arrow had to be sent on the string, and he Tang Firm's poor money could be paid first, but whether to reduce taxes or how to repay their Tang Firm's money in the future, there must be some regulations.

The two entered the city from the east of the city, and when they passed by Jingshanfang, Tang Ping suddenly heard a familiar voice.

"You are such a presumptuous monk! The faces of the monks have been disgraced by you, you are a bunch of robbers and hooligans! ”

"Do you know that I am a close friend of the Peace Kingdom? Are you not afraid that I will tell him to tear down your temple? ”

Looking out of the car, he found that it was Tang Sanzang who was jumping and cursing on the side of the road.

"Old Tang, what's wrong?"

Tang Ping looked at Tang Sanzang, and then looked at the person he was scolding, it was Daxingshan Temple, an ancient temple in Chang'an, where the Sanzang Master was said to be translating Buddhist scriptures.

This temple built in the Jin Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, from India to Chang'an missionary and study monks are in this temple to translate Buddhist scriptures and teach tantra, so it has become one of the three major translation sites of Chang'an to translate Buddhist scriptures, and it is also the birthplace of Chinese Buddhist Tantra.

Tang Sanzang saw Tang Ping, ran over and said, "I just found out today, what kind of pure land is this Buddha?" It's just a place to hide dirt and dirt, it's just scum and scum! ”

Tang Ping had never seen him so angry, seeing that the gate of the Great Xingshan Temple was closed, and no one paid attention to him cursing outside.

So he pulled Tang Sanzang into his car: "Tell me, what's wrong?" ”

"Hey!" Tang Sanzang sighed: "Didn't you bring back some Buddhist scriptures from Tianzhu?" There are many people who are proficient in Sanskrit in this Daxingshan Temple, so I chose to translate here with the monks in the temple. ”

"But early this morning, a mother and son came, begging the monks in the temple, I was curious to go up and ask to know that the name of this great Xingshan Temple is Xingshan, but what it does is not like this."

"They actually put the money in print, and because the mother and son exchanged money three days late, the only land in the family was taken away as collateral."

Indian money is actually usury.

In all dynasties, Buddhist temples were the largest usury lenders.

It's just that after Tang Ping came, whether it was the people he came into contact with or the people who followed him, they all quickly became rich and rich, and some people in Shanghe Village wanted to borrow money directly from his convenience store, and no one had contact with these Buddhist temples.

So he really forgot about this stubble, and only remembered it after listening to Tang Sanzang.

He turned his head to look at Li Yuanji: "Private loans, are they all in the temple?" ”

"That's right!" Li Yuanji nodded: "All the major temples in Chang'an have such a loan business, but the interest rate is high, and people need to use real estate or chattel to mortgage money. ”

"Your Majesty has no opinion?" Tang Ping asked with some surprise.

"It's useless for Your Majesty to have an opinion!" Li Yuanji shook his head and said: "There is always a time when the people need to be rescued, if the imperial court bans these temple lending businesses, you can't ask the people to go to the government to borrow money, right?" ”

"Why not? The government lent money to the people at a lower interest rate, shouldn't the people be willing to come? Tang Ping didn't understand it, this was indeed his knowledge blind spot

"The main reason is that the government doesn't have so much money to borrow, and sometimes I can't pay it back, or I don't pay it back, what should I do? When it comes to debt collection, there is always a little bit of means. But the government wants to use these means, how can it ...... I can't tell. ”

Tang Ping understood that this was a problem of funds, and the government was unwilling to do it.

So in the end, the matter fell to the various temples.

"The government can absorb the people's spare money and then lend it to the people, and as for management, it can form a separate institution responsible for deposits and loans."

"It's not that simple." Li Yuanji pointed to the plaque of Daxingshan Temple: "Look at that plaque, it was there at the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, and it has been more than 400 years now." And we Datang haven't been twenty years yet! ”

"There may be many dynasties in a hundred years, we want to absorb the people's spare money, but people also dare to put money in the government? If there is a change of dynasty, won't this money be wasted? ”

"But you look at this temple, no matter how the dynasty changes in the past four hundred years, it has no effect on them, so those who save money are more willing to keep it in their hands."

As long as they don't encounter large-scale extermination movements, these temples are indeed less affected by the change of dynasties.

In fact, the several extermination movements in history were not so much that the leaders were not accustomed to Buddhism, but that the leaders at that time had a direct conflict of interest with these monks.

The temple has a large amount of land but does not have to pay taxes, which greatly affects the national tax revenue.

Then the monks were exempted from conscription and military service, which invisibly reduced the country's large population.

The movement to exterminate Buddhism in the "Three Martial Arts and One Sect" is basically related to these two reasons.

Tang Ping looked at the closed door of Daxingshan Temple, and said with a smile: "There are some things, the three martial arts and one sect do, can't I Tang Ping do it?" ”

After speaking, he looked at Li Yuanji and said, "Didn't the third uncle say that there is still a place for us to rob money?" I didn't think of it just now, but now that I think about it, wouldn't it be better for us to rob the money of these temples? ”

"Robbing money from these temples? Really grabbed? Li Yuanji was also not afraid of heaven and earth, and clapped his hands and said, "I'll go and call the soldiers and horses over." ”

Tang Ping's face was black: "Third uncle, it's not the kind of robbery you think!" ”

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