Zhang He, who has been up and down in officialdom for many years, can't see that I'm afraid that the officials who were promoted just now are already His Majesty's people.

In the past, pretending to oppose them was just to prevent their promotion from being opposed by officials, but now that they are promoted, the strength and voice of the entire collective have been improved, and naturally they will no longer pretend, which is why the current situation will occur.

Zhang He just didn't know when His Majesty started to quietly lay out, and he actually took down so many officials without him knowing.

In this way, with His Majesty of the Imperial Party, the hundred officials can no longer rely on the numerical advantage to coerce His Majesty.

It seems that this court is about to change the sky.

Putting his hands together, Zhang He lowered his head and pondered, he didn't care about the changes in the court now, now that His Majesty was in the general trend, it was a foregone conclusion that Jiang He would lead the selection of new officials.

When the new officials fill the gap of the low-level officials, and with the joint support of the current batch of officials and the newly filled officials, there will be no more power in the court to oppose His Majesty.

His Majesty's power will directly reach a state of crushing against the remaining officials.

This is undoubtedly a new pattern in the court.

So, as the prime minister at the head of the hundred officials, what should he do with Zhanghe?

This made Zhang He fall into deep contemplation.

The opposition, which was already at a disadvantage, and the prime minister suddenly did not speak, was even more at a disadvantage, and in the face of the echoing voice of the Manchu dynasty, he did not know how to refute it for a while.

In the end, I could only helplessly watch as this matter that was clearly intended to allow His Majesty to expand his power passed the resolution of the court.

Zhao Jun, who achieved his goal, was undoubtedly happy in his heart, but he didn't show it.

In addition to putting Jiang He in charge of replenishing the new officials today, he still has one more thing to do.

That's the National Temple Census!

Due to the particularity of Buddhist temples, such as Daxiangguo Temple, Zhao Jun does not believe that it is just an exception, and it is more likely that it has not been exposed.

Moreover, Daxiangguo Temple is in Bianjing, where every inch of land is valuable, and the army actually collected the title deed of 50,000 hectares of land in Daxiangguo Temple, so what kind of huge industry does the local Buddhist temple have in those land-rich boundaries?

For today's Great Song Dynasty, taxes are extremely important, and it is impossible to let Yunzhou County support the entire Great Song Dynasty every year, so even if Yunzhou County is sold, it will not last for a few years.

In order to make the customs self-reliant, the most important thing is to increase the tax revenue of the customs area.

Last year before the invasion of the Xiongnu, after the autumn harvest of the Great Song Dynasty's tax revenue reached 200 million guan, that is, 20,000 taels of silver, of which seventy percent came from the commercial tax, the Great Song Dynasty's commercial tax was extremely huge, and the coastal sea trade was able to bring great benefits to the imperial court every year.

In addition, the land tax and other taxes together only account for 30% of the tax revenue of the Great Song Dynasty, of which the land tax is only half of the half of the tax!

What is this concept?

That is to say, the entire Great Song Dynasty, thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, nearly 100,000 acres of cultivated land, only received 5 million yuan in land tax!

First of all, we must clarify a concept, is five million a lot?

No!

Normally, the imperial court paid taxes twice a year, divided into summer tax and autumn tax.

Among them, the summer tax is silver, and the autumn tax is grain.

However, in order to facilitate transportation, many distant places will exchange the grain harvested in the autumn into silver money and transport it to Bianjing, otherwise I am afraid that the grain received will be eaten on the road alone.

In other words, taxes will be paid twice a year per mu of land, of which at least eighty percent will be paid in the form of money, and the remaining two percent will be because of the imperial court's demand for grain, and the actual grain that must be paid is used by the imperial court to supply the army reserve official warehouse and other places that must be used for grain.

Eighty percent of the land tax is only 5 million grain taxes, what is this concept?

Even if all the field taxes are converted into money, the annual field tax will be about 6.25 million yuan.

The 100,000 mu of land in the Great Song Dynasty only paid 6.25 cents per mu a year on average!

Is this possible?

If the annual field tax per mu of land was only this, would the people of the Great Song Dynasty still have such a difficult time?

Isn't that!

The fact is that less than two-twenties of the 100,000 mu of land in the Great Song Dynasty really paid taxes!

Where did the other 28/30 field tax go?

The answer is in the hands of those who annexed the land, and they evaded taxes through various methods, resulting in the annual land tax that should have been converted into money of 160 million yuan, and only received more than 6 million!

The Great Song Dynasty now has a tax of only 200 million a year!

That's a full half less!

If this country hadn't had commercial taxes and other taxes for so many years, it would have been finished long ago by relying on land taxes alone!

Emperor Zhu has something to say about this.

Zhao Jun doesn't know how much the temple has accounted for in the past few years, but since there is such a rafter as Daxiangguo Temple, if you don't take the opportunity to build a Buddhist temple across the country, increase the annual income of the imperial court, and get back some land, Zhao Jun himself will feel sorry for himself!

"Ahem! Ladies and gentlemen! ”

When Jiang and the leading officials at the bottom were about to discuss, Zhao Jun suddenly coughed lightly, attracting everyone's attention.

When the officials in the court looked at it, they slowly spoke:

"Ladies and gentlemen, if it weren't for the fact that I accidentally discovered the filth of the Great Xiangguo Temple this time, I am afraid that such a tumor as the Great Xiangguo Temple would still remain in Bianjing and poison the people of the Great Song Dynasty one after another.

And from the incident of the Great Xiangguo Temple, we can also see that as the so-called Buddhism to put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot and the convenience formed thereby, it is a good excuse and method for those who violate the law to escape responsibility.

As long as you find a monastery and become a monk, all the sins of the past can be written off like the past.

How unfair and ironic this approach is for those victims, and how unfortunate people can obtain merit instead of receiving evil retribution, isn't this a reversal of heavenly morality?

In addition, the temple absorbs fireworks from all directions, and the pure temple is often infected by the smell of gold, silver and copper, which leads to the impurity of the monks' six roots, and the vain desires, and the lawless monks take advantage of this to accumulate wealth and do unrighteous things, annexing the land of the people, causing hundreds of people to lose the foundation on which they depend.

This pile has fully explained that the temples in the world have reached the point where the imperial court has to control them, if they are allowed to go on like this, the rivers and mountains of my Great Song Dynasty will have unstable foundations!

Therefore, in order to eliminate this problem, I have decided to carry out a universal campaign on Buddhist temples in the world from now on!

All monks in the temple should check their identities, and those who have been convicted shall not be exempted from punishment as monks.

After the number of monks in the world is generally distributed in the imperial court, it will be determined whether to continue to distribute the degree according to the size of the city where the temple is located and the size of the population.

For example, each county capital is allowed to have only one monastery with no more than 200 people, and a county town with more than 50,000 people is allowed to have only one temple with no more than 100 people.

In the case of counties with insufficient numbers of people, and in towns below them, only one monastery with no more than 50 people is allowed to exist in one place.

And from now on, no monastery with more than 100 people shall occupy more than 10 hectares, no more than 50 people shall occupy more than 7 hectares, and no more than 50 people shall occupy more than 5 hectares!

All monasteries that exceed the local quota will be banned, all monks who exceed the quota will be returned to the laity, and all land that exceeds the quota will be nationalized!

Dare to rebel, kill!

From now on, restrictions on monasteries in the world should be set as a national policy.

Offend the national policymaker! Kill!

Kill until no one dares to resist it!

In addition, from today onwards, all those who want to shave must pass the imperial court assessment before they can shave, otherwise they will not be issued! Do not dress up as a monk, and those who dress up as monks are regarded as thieves! ”

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(End of chapter)