These officials are very aware of some of the temple's activities, after all, many officials come from wealthy families, and they do the same in the local area, but they are not as ruthless as these monks.

Seeing that Wang Xuanjing finally dismissed more than 1,000 monks and only gave 50 degrees, Xiao Yu immediately said angrily: "Does Wang Neishi understand Buddhist scriptures? There are many monks in the Meditation Temple, how can only fifty people pass the assessment? ”

"This official doesn't understand the Buddhist scriptures." Wang Xuanjing said lightly.

"If you don't understand the Buddhist scriptures, how can you assess the Buddhist monks?" Xiao Yu felt that he had seized Wang Xuanjing's life at this moment, and immediately said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, the internal history does not understand the Buddhist scriptures, and the assessment is arbitrary, and the minister implores me to find a minister who is proficient in the Buddhist scriptures to conduct the assessment." ”

"Your Majesty, although the internal history does not understand the Buddhist scriptures, the minister is proficient in the Buddhist scriptures, and all the assessments are conducted by the minister, and the internal history is not involved." Before Xiao Yu finished speaking, Fu Yi next to him came out directly.

Seeing that the person in the queue was Fu Yi, Xiao Yu's face suddenly darkened, if there was anyone he hated the most in this court, it was Fu Yi.

When he learned that Fu Yi was also proficient in Buddhist scriptures, Xiao Yu thought that Fu Yi believed in Buddhism like him and wanted to be a confidant, but he only communicated briefly and knew some of the things he did, so Xiao Yu directly cut off the relationship, and regarded him as an enemy, and even wanted Fu Yi to die.

"Your Majesty, Buddhists are disloyal and unfilial, cutting their hair and slashing their relatives; Wandering around to eat, easy to serve to escape rent. He did not pay money and grain, but encroached on tens of thousands of fertile land, which was a great disaster for the imperial court! ”

"Fang is under today, there are a number of acres of land, if you don't restrict the temple and Taoism, I'm afraid that in a few decades, the imperial court will run out of taxes!"

"Give a penny, and you will be rewarded ten thousand times; Fasting for one day, hoping for a hundred days of food, insatiable! ”

"Under the cover of the temple and Taoism, the people are not afraid of the court decrees, and do evil, but they repent in the temple Buddha worship, in order to forgive their sins, praise a daughter, charm the king of the world to the Zhou room to fall, the king of Ping moved east, and today the monks and nuns, the number of hundreds of thousands, if there are monks who take the opportunity to the name of the Buddha, confuse the people, how many people? The source of cholera in the world! ”

Hearing Fu Yi's words, Xiao Yu was even more angry, and immediately said: "Buddha, saint also." Yi for this discussion, non-saints can't, please put severe punishment. ”

"Buddha, saint?" Wang Xuanjing suddenly said coldly: "Who gave you the right to be canonized?" ”

"But a bit of Bang Zahu, An dares to be called a saint! Asked me, did King Hao agree to it? ”

Wang Xuanjing was suddenly angry, his hair was open, and his eyes were blazing at Xiao Yu.

"A saint is a person with high morality, great wisdom, and great merit in the world, or the sons of Xianhuai, or the ancient saints, so that he can be called a saint, what virtue can the Buddha have, dare to call a saint!"

Wang Xuanjing pointed at Xiao Yu and scolded him, Xiao Yu wanted to fight back several times, but was interrupted by Wang Xuanjing.

The surrounding officials were forced by Wang Xuanjing's momentum, and they did not dare to speak. Xiao Yu was angry and directly used Buddhist scriptures to debate with Wang Xuanjing.

Wang Xuanjing sneered, and then said: "The country of Tianzhu, now there are hundreds of states, the place where your Buddha was born is still not much war, the nobles are drunk and dreaming of death, the small people have no place to stand, and even their own country is not able to govern. ”

"They just want to make the people at the bottom believe in Buddhism, and then endure and submit to the oppression of those people, and not resist, in order to be reborn and rich in the next life! And they are so wanton to enjoy and oppress the people! ”

The Wang family has a lot of people in the Western Regions, so naturally they have been to Tianzhu, and have developed trade with Tianzhu, and there are often caravans to go, so they naturally know the situation in Tianzhu.

Xiao Yu debated Buddhist scriptures with him, but Wang Xuanjing ignored them at all, and directly took out the situation of Tianzhu, the birthplace of Buddhism.

Didn't you say that the Buddha saved the suffering and the Dharma is boundless? As the birthplace of the Buddha, why is it still like this?

What kind of things like the Buddha land in the world, the Elysian World, the land of Tianzhu, the people's worship of goodness and the like, Wang Xuanjing directly lifted their old foundations.

If you say that Buddhism is good, then Tianzhu, the birthplace of Buddhism, is naturally good. Wang Xuanjing directly came to a dimensionality reduction strike. I don't argue with you at all about the thoughts in the Buddhist scriptures, the Zen machines in the Buddhist scriptures.

Instead, directly put the facts, let you spit out the golden lotus, and say that the sky is falling, how do you explain the current ghost appearance of Tianzhu?

Xiao Yu argued, in front of what Wang Xuanjing took out, he was powerless to resist at all, and this person's face was as pale as paper.

How could such an argument be Wang Xuanjing's opponent?

After Li Shimin learned that Tianzhu was actually such a ghost, he no longer had the slightest reverence for Buddhism.

Directly ordered the Dao, let the Guanzhong Buddhism Gate be assessed in accordance with Wang Xuanjing's way, and at the same time let the officials check the temples and Taoist temples in various places, if all the temples and Taoist temples dare to embezzle the land, all of them will be recovered, and all the temples and Taoist temples can only leave a maximum of 500 acres of land.

Disciples of the Buddha and Taoism can only be exempted from labor after they have attained the degree of ordination, and those who do not have the degree of the Buddha and Tao disciples are also required to serve labor after they reach the age of eighteen.

As for the land retained by the temple, it is still necessary to pay taxes to the imperial court.

Originally, Li Shimin thought that if he left two or three hundred acres of land for the temple and Taoist temple, he would let these monks use the land to produce offerings to the gods and Buddhas, but Wang Xuanjing strongly objected.

Wang Xuanjing said directly, if His Majesty is exempt from the land tax of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, I am afraid that it will not be long before the people and aristocratic families of the world will force their land and property to be entrusted to the temples and Taoist temples for tax exemption, and then it will become what it is today.

After Li Shimin heard this, his face changed slightly, although he was born in a nobleman, he led troops to fight all the year round, knew the people's suffering, and knew that if tax exemption was given, what Wang Xuanjing said would definitely come true.

Therefore, the edict was amended so that all Buddhist temples and Taoist temples were not exempt from taxes, and they were also required to pay taxes.

At the same time, all the temple properties in various places must be registered, and if you dare to hide them, the crime will be added to the first degree.

Wang Xuanjing continued: "Your Majesty, don't distribute the acres of land collected from Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in various places to the people first. ”

"Why is that?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, these fields are distributed to the people, and they can only be distributed to the local people, or some people can be relocated to live here, these people live next to the temple, and it won't be long before those monks can encroach on these fields in various ways!"

"Huh?" Li Shimin was a little puzzled.

"Your Majesty, even if these lands are distributed to the people, they will not be able to keep them!" Wang Xuanjing sighed and said.

"Not only the temple, but also the powerful, nobles, and families from all over the country will invade and occupy them."

"The minister thought that these fields would be used as the official fields of the imperial court, and then rented to the people everywhere, and the fields were not allowed to be bought and sold, and a small tax could be collected every year."

(End of chapter)