"Buddhism?"

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were stunned.

How does this have anything to do with Buddhism?

Aren't these great monks wandering outside the world and not managing any red dust?

Not.

In the impression of outsiders, the people of Buddhism are like this.

They live deep in the mountains, eat fasting and recite Buddhas, detached from the mundane, and only deal with the legendary Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.

It's not easy for the world to see them.

As a monk, what bad intentions can I have?

And so on.

Under such packaging, Buddhism has become an undoubted decent person.

But!

"Did you know that people in Buddhism don't have to pay taxes?"

Xu Yi said.

"Huh?"

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling looked dazed.

They really don't know.

"But is there anything that the Buddha needs to pay taxes?"

Xu Ziling replied weakly, I don't know why, his impression of Buddhism seems to be good, and he instinctively defended Buddhism.

Xu Yi glanced at him and said.

"Normally, there really isn't, these Buddhist people don't produce, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with paying taxes, but ······"

"I'll give you an example, and you'll know."

"Outside Chang'an City, there is a temple called Jingnian Zen Temple, and in this temple, there is a large hall made of pure brass."

"You heard it right, it's pure brass! Not even copper coins are pure! ”

"This brass hall is conservatively estimated to weigh millions of catties, which can almost be equivalent to one million taels of silver!"

"The annual tax revenue of the imperial court is only 10 million taels of silver, and a large hall in this meditation monastery is equivalent to one million taels of silver, where do you think their wealth comes from?"

A house of a million taels of silver!

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling were dumbfounded.

They never imagined that a house could be so extravagant!

"Even if it's a legendary palace, it's not as good as the house of this meditation monastery, right?"

Kou Zhong smacked his lips, even if he didn't understand it, he knew that it was impossible for the imperial court, which had an annual tax of only 10 million taels of silver, to spend 1 million taels to build a palace.

Even the entire palace and all the palaces combined, it is difficult to say whether it is worth a million taels or not.

And this meditation monastery that they have never heard of has a house equivalent to one million taels of silver.

How rich does this have to be to do this?

Even Xu Ziling, who didn't know why, had an inexplicable affection for Buddhism, was silent after hearing this number.

In the face of ironclad facts, any flowery explanation pales in comparison.

You were telling me that the four were empty, but you turned around and built a million-dollar hall, this is your big four?

The meaning of these four is that in your eyes, money can't be considered money, right?

"Boss Xu, how did this Buddhism make so much money?"

Kou Zhong asked curiously.

Compared with the family gate valve, he really can't imagine how the Buddha Gate earned so much money?

Xu Yi didn't hide it, and explained directly.

"There are two reasons, one is that their followers either voluntarily or voluntarily 'donate', and the other is ······ Let's put it this way, there are thousands of hectares of fertile land at the foot of Jingnian Monastery Mountain, and they all belong to them. ”

"And in the whole world, the peasant labor force under the Buddhism sect definitely exceeds one million!"

"You understand that, don't you?"

"I understand."

Both nodded.

In the explanation just now, they have perfectly understood what is called labor equal to the production of wealth.

Buddhism, which controls a million laborers, is undoubtedly equivalent to controlling the wealth produced by these millions of laborers.

Plus they don't have to pay taxes either······

"This is the same bloodsucking worm as the Saga Gate Valve!"

Kou Zhong said with a look of disdain.

After Xu Yi's training, he now has no good impression of these blood-sucking people and the groups that make the people of the world live so hard.

Xu Yi glanced at him lightly.

If you want to talk about bloodsuckers, you Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling are also one of them.

The definition of a bloodsucking worm is actually very simple, that is, an individual does not produce any economic value, or the economic value of production is far less than the wealth they have grabbed, which is a bloodsucking worm.

The gate valves of the major families are bloodsuckers.

The corrupt officials of the world are bloodsuckers.

The self-proclaimed four empty Buddhist doors are bloodsucking insects.

The little gangsters who have no value at all are naturally bloodsuckers!

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, for now, they have not produced any economic value to this world.

He relied on deception and deception to take the wealth of others to support himself.

Of course, this is not the result they themselves wanted.

They themselves are orphans, and they are also controlled by the gangster leader Boss Yan, who forces them to cheat, steal, and rob!

If you can't accomplish your goal, you will be beaten at every turn.

It's not that they don't want to contribute to the world, it's that the damn world doesn't give them a choice!

Xu Ziling asked with a complicated expression.

"Boss Xu, is it possible that Buddhism shouldn't exist?"

"Of course not."

Xu Yi shook his head.

"Buddhism, including the family gate, although they are all bloodsuckers, I have never said that I want to completely eliminate them."

After two generations and two emperors, although most of the time he delegated power, he also had a lot of understanding of governing the country.

Governing the country is not simply fighting and killing.

Fighting, killing, and killing can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Just like the development of history, the family is gone, and the scholar family is out; The gentry disappeared, and the chaebol popped up again······

It is impossible for this kind of large power to be completely extinguished above ordinary people, and they will only continue to exist in another form.

Even in the last world, Xu Yi suppressed the entire world with his own strength, and various forces inevitably appeared underneath.

What he needs to do is not to exterminate them completely, but how to manage them so that they can be used by him, or contribute to the country and the world!

"For this world, because they are bloodsuckers, they are harmful."

"But we just need to make them harmless, even beneficial, and that's fine."

"They are also a part of the world, and blindly transitional suppression is also a harm to the world."

Xu Yi said with a dignified face.

Xu Ziling's eyes lit up, Xu Yi's statement won his heart, he was kind by nature, and he didn't want to make too much killing.

At this moment, Xu Yi seemed to be emitting light from his entire body in his eyes!

"Boss Xu, how are we supposed to turn them into beneficial?"

"Quite simply, why are they bloodsuckers?"

"Because······ Not paying taxes? ”

"That's right!"

Xu Yi looked at Xu Ziling approvingly.

"Because they don't pay taxes, they don't contribute anything to this world, so they're bloodsuckers!"

"But as long as they pay taxes and contribute to the world, then they will naturally no longer be bloodsuckers!"

What is the biggest problem with the Saga gate valve?

Private soldiers in captivity? Land annexation? Forced to buy and sell?

No!

None of these are any.

The biggest problem with the Saga gate valve is that it doesn't pay taxes!

The above mentioned are all illegal and have other ways to deal with them.

Only this one, which does not pay taxes, is given by the imperial court and is legal!

This is equivalent to the fact that the imperial court directly distributed a large part of the wealth to them, of course, in the eyes of the emperors of all dynasties, it may only be a small part of the wealth.

After all, most of the land in this world is in the hands of the state or farmers, and even if they don't have to pay taxes, they won't lose much money.

But what they don't know is that because of this legal benefit of 'not paying taxes', the major families have used it to the extreme through various illegal means!

The wealth they extract each year can even be several times the tax revenue of the imperial court, which is completely more than the imperial dynasties imagined when they first formulated this policy.

It is estimated that these founding emperors could never have imagined that the policies and laws they formulated in order to win over the noble class would eventually cause such serious consequences.

"Yes! As long as they pay taxes, is it? ”

Xu Ziling looked happy, feeling that he had found a bright direction.

Kou Zhong on the side pursed his lips and said.

"Xiaoling, you are so naïve! How could their gang pay taxes obediently? ”

"Huh?"

Xu Ziling was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought about it, and then looked at Xu Yi again.

"Boss Xu, Xiao Zhong is right······ Is that right? ”

"Xiao Zhong is right."

Xu Yi nodded, without the slightest pause, and gave him this cruel answer.

Will the major families pay taxes obediently?

Of course it can't be!

This is the most fundamental reason why they can become a family!

Many people say that it is because they have knowledge that has been passed down for thousands of years, and there is some truth in this sentence, but it is not absolute.

At least in this era, they did not possess enough knowledge to transcend others and become the gatekeepers of a family that even emperors feared.

The fundamental reason why they really make the emperor jealous, called a family, and even possible to replace the emperor at any time is that they control the labor force!

The strength of a country depends on its gross national product.

In later generations, the reason why the United States is so strong and the only superpower in the world is because their GDP is the largest in the world!

Although the population of rice is far inferior to that of China, at that time, due to industrialization and technological revolution, the average personal product of rice was extremely high.

If it is said that Chinese people can produce an average economic value of 200 yuan per day, then the average economic value of rice people who have mastered high technology can be at least 1,000 or even more than 2,000 yuan per day!

In this era, the value of individual labor is relatively small, and with the blessing of technology and knowledge, it can be reversed.

However, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, this agricultural society, which was far from entering the era of industrialization, had a GDP that could basically be equated with the labor force.

Whoever controls the labor force and the population is larger, the national strength will be stronger.

(PS: The national strength here does not fully represent the military strength, which also involves more complex issues such as wealth distribution rate and wealth utilization rate, so I will not expand on it here.) ）

Why is it that when the world is in turmoil, the gate valves of the major families are often able to ride the wind, go all the way forward, and sit on the only emperor's throne?

It's because you don't have to pay taxes!

By virtue of the fact that they do not pay taxes, they quietly control millions of laborers.

In a way, it's not an exaggeration to call them a state within a state!

Just like those vassal states that were divided, although these family lords did not have substantial territory, they controlled substantial population!

Is population or territory important?

Li Tang's family history tells us that they secretly selected soldiers from their own private peasants, and in one fell swoop, they easily won the entire Taiyuan.

Because these peasants have always paid taxes to Li Tang, and they also recognize Li Tang as the master, this is equivalent to recruiting soldiers in their own country.

Naturally, there were no problems.

The same is true of the other family lords, who recruit peasants as soldiers in their own land, and they are completely their own guards!

Sum up.

The 'no tax' policy seems to be just an ordinary means that the family can use to make money, but in fact it is their biggest foundation!

Once this foundation is missing, it will not be so easy for them to rebel and recruit soldiers in the future.

Because the people in this land all pay taxes to the imperial court, there is naturally a sense of identity in their hearts.

I've paid for it all!

This country has my share!

Don't underestimate this little difference, it's the biggest difference between yourself and others.

Like the Li Tang royal family, although they also recruited many soldiers later, the most trusted and hardworking on the battlefield will always be Taiyuan veterans!

The 'no tax' policy is so important that it is conceivable that the major families will not agree to abolish it at all.

It's like the abolition of the sub-enclosure system.

You're going to deprive me of my throne!

Then I won't fight with you yet?

"So, if we want to turn these bloodsuckers into beneficial worms, we first have to beat them all."

"Cripple them! Beat to his knees and beg for mercy! Naturally, they will agree with our new policy! ”

Xu Yi said lightly.

In the first two worlds, he did it like this, but he did it a little bit more ruthlessly, and wiped out all those family gates.

In this world, Xu Yi, who has understood the essence of governing the country, decided to improve it a little and be less ruthless.

Just cripple these family gate valves!

"Crippled?"

Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling shuddered.

They thought of the Bamboo Flower Gang, and this big war had just ended.

Their noses could still breathe the smell of blood coming from the air, and the strong smell of blood reminded them of how tragic the battle really was!

This Bamboo Flower Gang, which originally had thousands of people, now has less than 300 people left, and more than seventy percent of them died in that war.

Boss Xu······ Wouldn't you be going to deal with the Saga Gate Valve in the same way?

(End of chapter)