Wang Xuanjing did not agree with Confucian governance, so he still adopted the rule of law during the Great Cadre period.

Of course, after so many years of development, Wang also knows that there are still many merits in this set of Confucian things.

For example, high moral constraints, aristocratic families have now formed a high moral constraint. At least on the surface, of course.

Even if it is a man stealing a woman and prostituting a woman in secret, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, but at least on the bright side, it can't be like this, to put it bluntly, it is to face, so many aristocratic families will at least not go too far.

Coupled with Wang Xuanjing's formulation of legal constraints, there are very few people who dare to fool around.

After the imperial court distributed the mother money, the local minting supervisors began to mint Kaiyuan Tongbao and Zhenguan Tongbao. The most coins minted are naturally Guanzhong.

Because of the confiscation of a large number of bronze statues of temples and Taoist temples, the number of coins minted by the imperial court for the first time was as high as one million. Among them, Guanzhong and Luoyang occupy half, and the rest is Hebei and Jiangnan occupy most of them.

These places are now the most prosperous areas in the world.

After these years of development, because of the climate, most of the land in Jiangnan can be harvested twice a year, coupled with the fertile land, and now it has begun to gradually catch up with the north.

It's just that because Jiangnan is a land of smoke and miasma, the probability of illness and death is still higher than that in the north.

However, the sericulture in the south of the Yangtze River has surpassed that of the north, and the quality of silkworm cocoons in the south is better. In addition, the sea salt was transported from Yangzhou to Guanzhong, which made the Jiangnan salt merchants very profitable.

With a large amount of currency, commercial and trade activities in the world began to flourish, and with the continuous advancement of the imperial court's equalization of fields, the people began to settle down and farm.

Li Shimin originally thought that he would directly mint millions of coins, and he thought that it would be too much, thinking that it would cause a situation where copper was cheap and expensive, but the real situation was completely the opposite, millions of copper coins sounded like a lot, but after these coins were distributed to the whole world, there were no waves at all.

In recent years, because of the currency chaos, the people have suffered greatly, and even many times, the people would rather barter than use copper coins, because these copper coins have different values, even professional businessmen have a headache, let alone ordinary people.

Therefore, the currency minted by the imperial court flowed into the market and was highly sought after.

Seeing this situation, Wang Xuanjing immediately ordered local governments to use copper coins to purchase all kinds of materials in the hands of the people.

In this way, more new money can be put out, and at the same time, it is also an opportunity to establish a standing position system. As for the bad money in the hands of the people, it is recycled at a discount. Of course, because the people are poor, the discount of bad money is not low.

Of course, in order to prevent those nobles and heroes from taking the opportunity to exchange a large amount of bad money for good money for profit, there is a limit on the exchange of copper coins in the imperial court.

How much money do the people have? Basically, they can't change the limit of three or five yuan for one person, and which one of those powerful families does not have tens of thousands of copper coins.

These are the real big heads, for these wealthy families, if they want to exchange for new money, they must be converted by at least more than half, or even higher.

The imperial court issued a decree that in the next few years, copper coins other than Kaiyuan Tongbao and Zhenguan Tongbao were no longer allowed to continue to circulate in the market.

Through the method of recycling a large amount of bad money, old money, the imperial court began to mint copper coins in large quantities.

The first batch of 1 million copper coins was exchanged in just half a month, and there was not much good money circulating in the market, and the people were afraid of bad money, so they held the good money in their hands and were unwilling to spend it.

For this point, Wang Xuanjing has long been prepared, and then the local mint commissions will continue to mint new money, put new money on the market, and at the same time restrict the circulation of inferior money.

It is necessary to let the people see that the imperial court is constantly minting new money and give them confidence.

The implementation of the money law and the land system was carried out in conjunction with the crackdown on religion. After all, who made these monks and Taoists rich and land? And under Wang Xuanjing's blow, he also became politically isolated.

Without a large number of officials blocking it, the liquidation of the temple proceeded steadily.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, only temples, Taoist temples and nobles from all over the country had a large amount of money and grain land. The noble and powerful families can be squeezed, but there must be a suitable reason, and they cannot be suppressed too ruthlessly.

After all, the world still needs them to cooperate with governance, if the oppression is too ruthless, these high-ranking families and nobles will take the opportunity to do things, and when the place is unstable, the court will send troops to quell the rebellion. When the time comes, the gains outweigh the losses.

Wang Xuanjing's exchange of bad money for new money has already cut the meat of many nobles from high-ranking families. And the monastery and Taoism without force and political power are the best choice.

Of course, the imperial court did not beat Buddhism, Taoism and religion to death with a stick, and Wang Xuanjing knew very well that these religions were basically incomplete.

If you eliminate Buddhism, other religions will appear, and this time you will suppress these temples and Taoist temples because these religions have done too much.

Next, the imperial court also needs to vigorously crack down on obscene and wild gods in various places. For example, the Wutong God of some places is believed in, and the origin of the Wutong God is no longer examinable, but this Wutong God is an evil god obscene shrine.

With the help of faith, he amassed a lot of money, raped women, and did many things to rob and rob.

The imperial court needed to crack down hard, and the temples were completely destroyed.

All the gods that have not been canonized by the imperial court in various places must be demolished, and people everywhere are not allowed to worship.

In addition to suppressing religion, the imperial court also had an incentive policy for religion, Buddhism is a religion spread from Tianzhu, since Buddhism can spread from Tianzhu, it can naturally spread to other places.

The imperial court restricted the development of religion at home, but it always encouraged the spread of religion abroad.

The imperial court encouraged monks to spread Buddhism and Taoism to the frontiers and barbarian lands. Because during the Great Qian, the Wang family discovered that the Hu people and barbarians in the land of barbarians believed in these religions more than the people of Zhuxia in the Central Plains.

So the imperial court wanted to use the power of religion to imperceptibly educate those Hu people and barbarians.

Once these religions develop in barbarian and frontier lands, they will inevitably occupy a large amount of wealth and means of production. This is a kind of weakening in disguise for those Hu people and barbarians.

For those monks and Taoist priests who have the courage to spread religion to the outside world, the imperial court will bestow them with honors, and the court will even issue an edict to crown them as Arhat Bodhisattvas or immortals.

This kind of reward with the endorsement of the imperial court is much better than the gods and Buddhas created by those people themselves.

Originally, when Buddhism was suppressed by the imperial court, he was overjoyed when he saw the imperial court suddenly point out a path to the gods. Many monks and Taoists gritted their teeth and directly applied to the imperial court to preach in the frontier and barbarian lands.

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