Chapter 893: The Power of Religion (Page 1/1)

"Oh? Is it so serious? Li Er obviously didn't know what Zhang Nan was worried about.

"Naturally, there is, let's put aside their big food to preach into the Tang Dynasty, let's take a ready-made example as an example, that is, the monks of Chang'an City, does the emperor know how many monks there are in Chang'an City?" Zhang Nan asked.

As soon as Zhang Nan asked, Comrade Li Er thought about it, and after a while, Comrade Li Er gave his own answer.

"There are probably nearly 10,000 of them, there are at least three or four big temples near Chang'an, one of which is a thousand monks, and there are countless small temples, so this number is almost 10,000." Li Erdao.

"The minister asked the emperor again, how much land do these monks have, do you know the emperor?" Zhang Nan sneered.

"I don't know." Li Er is also very honest, in fact, he doesn't particularly like Buddhism, but as an emperor who wants to pursue immortality, Comrade Li Er also believes in it more or less.

"This group of monks not only has a large area of land, but also the taxes they pay are a drop in the bucket compared to their incense money, the monastery wantonly collects poor people as their believers, and this group of poor people are willing to be monks in order to have a life guarantee, so they are also willing to be monks, this is why our monks and monasteries near Chang'an City are so popular, do you really think these people believe in Buddhism?" Zhang Nan said.

"And what's going on?" Li Er turned to the eldest grandson Wuji with a puzzled expression.

Seeing Comrade Li Er asking for his name, the eldest grandson Wuji had no choice but to stand up and say: "If you go back to the emperor, what Qingquan said is not bad at all, this group of monks is simply rich, not only has good land, but also does business, plus their incense money, I am afraid there is no one who makes more money than them." And their taxes are so small that the government doesn't want to collect their taxes. The eldest grandson Wuji also said with a wry smile.

"Oh? Why is that? Could it be that if they believe in the Buddha, they will have privileges? Although Comrade Li Er also believes in Buddhism, as long as it involves the issue of money, especially the issue of the Datang treasury, the belief in Comrade Li Er's heart will be temporarily blocked.

"There are too many of their believers, and many of them are willing to work hard for the temple, and every time they collect taxes, they pay how much they pay, and the government takes how much, they don't dare to overcharge at all, if they overcharge......" Before the eldest grandson Wuji's words were finished, Comrade Li Er waved his hand and interrupted: "Could it be that they still dare to make trouble?" ”

Li Er is a decisive person, he has always been the only one to make trouble for others, and no one else has to make trouble for him, so when he heard the eldest grandson Wuji say this, Comrade Li Er was moved to kill.

"No, no, no, your majesty, they naturally don't dare to make trouble, but they like to spread rumors, this kind of thing, people are terrible, plus their status as poor, there are more people who believe it, and there is no regulation in our "Tang Law" that can be convicted because of rumors, so the government has no way to protect my Tang Dynasty." The eldest grandson Wuji is also helpless, and it seems that he has no way to deal with these monks.

In terms of economy, the development of the monastic economy was also one of the reasons: since the end of the Southern Dynasty, the monasteries enjoyed the privilege of exemption from military service and classes, coupled with the endless alms and the ransom money from the emperor's sacrifice of the Buddhist temple, so that these monks could directly run secular business.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were many monasteries, and the monks mostly operated large-scale garden farmland to make a living, and many Buddhist believers were put into production, and more importantly, the destruction of the rent regulation. As a result, the tax rates varied from place to place, and the poor mostly evaded taxes and entered the temple, which led to the prosperity of Buddhism.

The hardening of Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty gave Buddhism a good opportunity. The result of the development of Buddhist thought in the Six Dynasties has given a great inspiration to the life of the times.

Including the suspicion of the main body of the word universe and the search for the ideal destination of life, the Confucian scholar Xu Zunming at that time took his own heart as his teacher. Yan Zhitui and Wang Tong advocated the unity of Confucianism and Buddhism, but they still failed to meet people's spiritual requirements.

As for Tang Kong Yingda's "Five Classics of Justice", he only followed Nanxue. It was not the original idea of the Tang Dynasty. However, scholars only wanted to familiarize themselves with the "Five Classics of Justice", so the study of scriptures stagnated, and many intellectuals left Confucianism to study Buddhism, so the Tang Dynasty became the heyday of Buddhism.

"How dare this group of monks?" Li Er said angrily.

"Your Majesty, now you understand, just one Buddhism, we all have so many problems that cannot be solved for the time being, and they still want to preach into the Tang Dynasty, isn't this to destroy the foundation of my Tang Dynasty?" Zhang Nan arched his hand.

Zhang Nan is an atheist, although Zhang Nan respects every religion and every person with faith, but this does not mean that with the protection of religion, he can do things that disrupt the country.

Obviously, Da Shi is now trying to do things that disrupt the country and mess with the foundation of Datang, Zhang Nan doesn't think that if Da Shi really introduces the religion to Datang, he can have any good way.

So since there is no way to deal with it, the best way is to ask him not to come.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it doesn't matter if you believe in religion, but if you believe in religion and believe in a chaotic country, this is a big problem, if you don't control it, it is not impossible to destroy the country, obviously, some temples are dressed in the cloak of Buddhism to collect money, even Buddhism is like this, that Dashi wants to introduce the religion of our country, does the emperor think there is anything good?" Zhang Nan said.

"Can this one sect be so powerful?" Li Er asked in disbelief.

Of course, if Comrade Li Er had known about the clerical power and imperial power of the Roman State, I am afraid he would not have thought so.

The split of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, Christianity was also divided into Catholicism in Rome and Orthodox Christianity in Byzantium. The Eastern Roman Empire maintained harmonious relations with the Orthodox Church, and there was no situation in which the ecclesiastical power was above the imperial power.

The Western Roman Empire was weakened by the barbarians in the north, and the Roman Church continued to expand its influence until the city of Rome was conquered by the Germans.

This led to the demise of Western Rome and the loss of influence of the civilized secular regime. And after the Eastern Roman Empire was destroyed by another civilizational empire, the Orthodox Church was suppressed by the *** teachings of the Ottoman Empire.

The division of Eastern and Western Rome led to the division of Christianity into two sects. The Catholic civilization to the west was sacked by barbarians, and another civilization to the east perished. The Germanic peoples did not establish their own civilization and embraced Christianity, so that the growth of Catholicism was not limited in the same way as the Orthodox Church.

It was not until the papacy received Pepin's consecration from the Franks that the spiritual and secular powers of the pope were unified. At this time, the Papal States were **** countries, and at the same time he was also the pope of most of Western Europe.

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