"Great sage and good teacher, I heard that Buddhism is doing quite badly, isn't it good for us to set up a religion?"

A slightly innocent smile was facing Zhang Jiao.

"Our Taiping Tao is different from Buddhism, and the 'Zhonghuang Taiyi' we believe in is the supreme righteous god, not the third-rate Buddhas of Buddhism." Zhang Jiao spoke disdainfully about Buddhism.

Moreover, Buddhism is a foreign sect, which is fundamentally different from their Taiping Taoism.

It is normal for the imperial court to suppress things from outside, but their Taiping Tao is completely a serious inland religion.

The most important point is that they are a religion in the opposition, and there is no chance that the court will be registered, and they don't have to pay the court money at all.

"Isn't that still going to be handed over to eighty percent of the tax revenue of the imperial court?" The farmer said distressedly.

Growing grain has to pay eighty percent of the tax, and it can't support itself at all, and the farmer feels that religion is completely a bunch of fools, fools who work for the imperial court.

"As long as we don't report it to the court, wouldn't it?" The other man with fine skin and tender flesh said, looking like a reader.

"I'm afraid it won't work, the court has been paying attention to us for a long time, if we don't apply to the court again, we may be arrested and sent to the army." Zhang Jiao said with a headache.

Although he was hidden when he preached, he could not completely avoid the eyes and ears of the imperial court.

But with the Buddhist missionary in front of him, the imperial court thought that he was just preaching and establishing a religion, and did not think about anything else.

"You're welcome!"

When Zhang Jiao came to the official mansion, he was welcomed like never before, and many high-ranking officials in the county came.

made Zhang Jiao and his entourage a little restrained.

"Our court has always attached great importance to religion, and the county guards also take care of Buddhism in the county. But Buddhism is not the native religion of the New Dynasty after all, and now with you to establish the Taiping Dao County Guard, it is ecstatic! "The officials who received it were welcoming.

The treatment of religion in the new dynasty has remained unchanged since Buddhism came to the new dynasty.

'Very good pay'.

"The county guard decided to give you a thousand acres of fertile land in Taiping Road directly, and you can tell me where you like it."

Zhang Jiao's face changed.

Farming has eighty percent of the tax, and farming is a dead end, and you can't touch any of the good land.

"Taiping Road has just been established, and it can't digest so much fertile land." Zhang Jiao shook the official's hand, wanting to refuse the county guard's kindness.

"That's right, I'll give you 900 acres. Don't refuse, don't refute the county guard's face. The missionary of Buddhism took a hundred acres when he was alone. The official looked at Zhang Jiao meaningfully.

"Thank you for the kindness of the county guard and the help of the imperial court." Zhang Jiao 'happily' accepted the kindness of the county guard.

……

"Abbot, how did you think about becoming a monk in the first place?"

Xu Fei touched the big bald head in the moonlight.

It's not as smooth as before, and it's already starting to grow hair, and it's a little prickly.

"Go, go, don't you know that a man's head can't be touched?" The abbot patted Xu Fei's hand.

The abbot is the abbot of the temple who raised the power of the temple to join the army, and now he is still a layman, so he naturally wants to use the name of the layman.

But he disliked that it was difficult for the 'second dog' to get into the hall of elegance, so he asked the people around him to continue to call him the abbot.

"Why did you want to be a monk in the first place?"

The abbot looked up at the moon and fell into memory.

"It was the same night as today, and the abbot from before our temple found me." The abbot sighed.

"He told a lot of stories about Buddhism and the Buddha, and he has almost forgotten it by now. But I still remember the sentence clearly: 'If you join Buddhism, you don't have to participate in military service, and you don't have to worry about eating'. ”

"When I was in the village, I often saw the corpses of the villagers who had died in battle. I was afraid of death and didn't want to be a soldier, so I followed it to become a monk as soon as my brain was hot. The abbot said with emotion.

"Then why aren't you a monk to be a soldier now?" Xu Fei was puzzled.

The second dog who became a monk because he was afraid of death, why did he come to be a soldier again, and he also came with all the monks.

He will become an abbot at a young age next year, and his future is bright!

"Because I found that it is better to be a monk than to be a soldier!" The abbot threw a fist on the ground in anger.

"Did you know that religion pays eighty percent of the tax? Did you know that Buddhism can't eat meat and can't get married? Do you know what time I get up every day to recite the scriptures and farm the land? Do you know how miserable I've been? ”

"Hiss!" Xu Fei fell a mouthful of Buddha.

Is Buddhism so miserable? How did the imperial court persecute Buddhism, and what did it do to persecute people?

Xu Fei looked at the abbot with bulging muscles and felt some sympathy.

"If you continue to suffer in Buddhism, you might as well come to the battlefield and fight to the death. It is possible to spell out a future on the battlefield, and in Buddhism it is completely better to live than to die. The abbot had tears in his eyes.

Why can't I quit after joining a religion?

The abbot wanted to cry without tears, and it was clear that the imperial court did not like to see religion. But it is very strange that there is such a rule that "a person who is religious for one day is a religious person for the rest of his life", and the only way to leave religion is to join the army.

I am afraid that the only people who can stay in Buddhism are those who have a strong faith, right?

……

"If you join the Taiping Dao, you don't have to go to military service?"

"Of course, our Taiping Dao is a religion recorded by the government, and it is the first native religion of the New Dynasty. If you join us, you don't have to go to military service. The people of Taiping Road enthusiastically introduced Taiping Road.

The new dynasty fought countless battles, and the dead soldiers were naturally countless.

Of course, there are those who want to kill their names, but most of them are not allowed to join the army because of military service.

Moreover, there are many people who do not want to serve in the military during the perennial war, and Taiping Dao is to promote Taiping Dao by grasping the point of 'no military service'.

"Although Buddhism does not require military service, we can drink wine, eat meat, and marry a wife!"

"Then I'll join the Taiping Dao!"

On a field.

Zhang Jiao, who had been busy all day, sat in the field drinking water, and the scholar next to him looked at his tanned skin in a daze.

"Great sage and good teacher, we are gathered together to plan big things, not to farm for the imperial court together!" The reader said irritably.

"Take it one step at a time, don't be too impatient." Zhang Jiao said calmly.

Although Zhang Jiao was also in a hurry, he couldn't be in a hurry.

Now the most important thing is to plant the land first, and only after planting the land can you plan big things, otherwise the taxes to the imperial court will not be paid.

"Don't be in a hurry, how can you not be in a hurry!" The scholar hung his head in a cloak.

He followed Zhang Jiao in order to overthrow the new dynasty, not to work for the new dynasty and contribute to the construction of the new dynasty!

(End of chapter)