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This is a huge contradiction.

At the end of the dynasty, land annexation was serious, and other problems led to a large number of people being landless farmers, without a place to stand, and becoming refugees. In fact, this is an excellent development condition for industry and commerce. With landless farmers, industry and commerce have a large number of employees.

Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, there were thousands or tens of thousands of people in those mines at all times, because the miners were landless and uninvested. The surge in the population in various towns in the late Ming Dynasty was precisely because the fields in the countryside were merged, so many landless farmers could only flock to the city to find jobs and make a living.

But now it is the early Tang Dynasty.

The official registered households are only three million households and a population of 15 million. More than a decade ago, when the Sui Dynasty was at its peak, there were nearly nine million households, almost fifty million people.

The systems implemented by the Tang Dynasty were mostly to continue the Sui Dynasty, the equal-field system, the government system, and the renting and mediocre system, and the simplest ideas were everywhere. Try to make the people of the Tang Dynasty nailed to the land.

The space left for industry and commerce is really small.

Nowadays, those who engage in industry and commerce are actually those noble families.

On the one hand, they have gained academic advantages and monopoly. On the other hand, they have gained an advantage in the court's personnel. They have monopolized academic affairs, and the officialdom is also their world.

On the other hand, they are big landlords and at the same time they have enough capital to run industry and commerce, and use these in turn to support their political status.

Ordinary people only do small business. If you want to be bigger, you will be killed if you don’t have a background. And the most important thing is, where did you get the workers?

Those powerful families had hidden families hiding under their sects, and a large number of slaves, whether they were operating salt ponds or digging copper and iron ore.

Although the Li family is also an emerging wealthy family, their foundation is still too shallow after all.

It turned out that when I was in Bashang, I only relied on the villagers to do some industries, the Li family’s preferential conditions than others, and the Li family’s reputation for being kind and generous. Moreover, at that time, the industry did not employ many people. Later, when it became a little bigger, Li Chao started to use apprentices again.

But now the Li family is in Ningyuan, and it is getting bigger and bigger.

In addition to operating land and shops, we also started to carry out processing and manufacturing, and even mining and iron smelting, which made the manpower demand greater.

This is the conflict between the wealthy families and the imperial court.

With the privileges of the aristocratic families, they must expand, occupy land, lend, do business, etc., not only annex the land, but also compete with the imperial court for population.

The court also needs population.

The imperial court opened up borders and expanded its territory, hoping to have more populations so that it could immigrate to the borders and divide the land and grant land. In this way, the imperial court not only strengthened the borders, increased grain production, and increased taxes.

After the field is divided, the number of students can also increase.

Why did the ancient imperial courts like to suppress Shang?

First, most of the people doing business are controlled by the privileged class, and the court cannot collect taxes. Second, the chamber of commerce competes with the court for agricultural population. If farmers who were originally dependent on the land turn to industry and commerce in large quantities, this will undoubtedly reduce grain production and reduce national land rent.

After all, the farming technology in this era was backward, and the land needed many people to cultivate. If manpower was insufficient, the grain output would definitely decrease. On the other hand, if the people were dependent on the land, then the social structure would be the most stable.

Where can I get workers?

The wealthy families in the past relied on the accumulated strength over time and generations.

The greatest opportunity for them to expand their strength is often the year of disaster. When the land is not collected in the year of famine, the people have to borrow food and money from them. They take the opportunity to lend money, and then when the people cannot repay the debt, they will collect the land. They even buy children and daughters in the year of disaster, and buy people who cannot support the victims.

Even in the end, I couldn't live a life of some disasters. After losing the fields, my whole family simply joined these powerful people.

It is because of this that their strength is getting stronger and stronger, and their land and population are becoming more and more popular.

This path is not applicable to the Li family.

Not to mention anything else, it is difficult to quench near thirst even if it is far away.

If you want people, you either grab the foreign countries around you, grab the barbarians in the southwest, grab the population from there, fight the Turks, fight Goguryeo, fight the war to destroy the country, and turn those barbarians into slaves.

However, the Turks, Goguryeo may not have fought before, so they can only deal with the Southwest Yi first.

Or destroy Buddha.

Li Yuan was originally planning to destroy Buddhism, but Li Shimin ascended the throne and stopped this plan. The world is still stable now, and Li Chao thinks he can do it.

Forget Taoism, the Li family has a very different relationship with Taoism, and it is supported by the key points, and the strength of Taoism is far less than that of Buddhism.

Buddhism does have a lot of wealth.

In the capital of Chang'an alone, there are tens of thousands of monks and nuns, hundreds of Buddhist temples and nuns, and countless fields. The tenant farmers who depend on their names are estimated to have at least 100,000 or 200,000.

These are not registered with the imperial household registration and do not pay taxes to the imperial court.

Li Chao didn’t plan to move a wealthy family. He was also from a class, but the Buddhist power was so strong that he wouldn’t do anything about it?

Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, who was not far away, destroyed Buddhism. At that time, he destroyed more than 40,000 Buddhist temples in the world and forced three million monks and nuns to return to secular life. There were only three million monks and nuns, which shows the great power of Buddhism.

This accounted for one-third of the country's population at that time, but it was not a household registration and a civilian. It was not a job in production or a military service. It could be said that it was a completely parasite.

Emperor Wu of Zhou had a strong role in destroying Buddhism. Historical saying that the civil servants were slightly more likely to be sent, and the rents were increased year by year, and the military troops were growing day by day. The east was pacified Qi Kingdom, the west was determined to defend the Yaorong, and the country was safe and happy.

Destroying Buddha is more effective than destroying a country.

The population has increased by several million, countless fields have been seized, and a lot of gold and silver wealth has been confiscated. There are more taxpayers, more soldiers have wider numbers, and fewer parasites have been lost.

After the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty strongly supported Buddhism, which made the power of Buddhism reach a peak in just a few decades.

Li Chao also opposes Buddhism.

First of all, from the perspective of scholars, they are of course on the Confucian side. Buddhism is only a barbarian method, not inherent in China, and this is not in line with the way of the previous kings.

Moreover, the popularity of Buddhism caused the enemy to perish one after another, and the fortune was not long, which was harmful to the court.

The Buddha was originally a barbarian, and he had different languages ​​from China and had different clothes. He did not speak the laws of the previous kings, but did not obey the laws of the previous kings, and did not know the meaning of the ministers and the feelings of fathers and sons, so it was not advisable to respect them.

Of course, if we put aside this Confucian position and only look at the national interest level, worshiping Buddhism will not be of any benefit to the country.

Buddhism’s betrayal of the principles and precepts of the teachings of the people will hinder the national economy and people’s livelihood.

Buddhist temples are spread all over the world, with tens of thousands and millions of monks and nuns. With so many people, they do nothing and recite scriptures and worship Buddha all day long. In particular, they have formed a powerful temple economy. Buddhist temples generally have many fields, and even have mortgage loans. They also have a large number of tenants and even many slaves.

These millions of monks and nuns have such a huge industry, but they will not pay a penny of taxes to the court. The tenant slaves under their names are also not for the registered population of the court, nor do they pay taxes or accept taxes.

For the court, this is equivalent to a big cancer, as hateful as a family of aristocratic families.

For Li Chao, of course he is good, but the bad are just those Buddhism.

If there were to destroy the Buddha once, Li Shimin would have sent it. There were more monks and nuns in the country than when they destroyed the Buddha in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but the number of millions was probably not small. How many hidden households and slaves were attached to these monks and nuns? Not to mention ten times, five or six times, there would always be five or six times.

There are tens of thousands of Buddhist temples, how many temple fields are there?

How much copper can you get if so many Buddha statues are destroyed and melted and cast?

If you really want to make up your mind to destroy Buddhism, Li Shimin will definitely make a big fuss.

Not much about the population, it is absolutely fine to add all the monks, nuns, tenants and slaves in Buddhist temples to all the people. It is absolutely fine to add nearly 10 million people to acre of land.

Even the property of the Buddhist temple can fill Li Shimin's treasury.

When Wu Zhou destroyed Buddhism, the country suddenly became stronger and the national treasury was full, and then the Northern Qi Dynasty was destroyed.

In fact, the upper class of Li Tang had already reached a consensus on destroying Buddhism. It was just because of the change in the Xuanwu Sect of Li Shimin, the plan was interrupted. Because Li Shimin usurped the throne and got the wrong position, he was worried that destroying Buddhism at this time would allow those who are interested to take the opportunity to cause trouble.

But Li Chao felt that all parties were stable now, and there was no problem in destroying Buddha at this time.

It’s enough to destroy Buddhas and not kill them like Emperor Wu of Wei.

Forced Foni to return to secular life, let them marry, share land and give them land, and let them farm honestly.

If there are not so many places in the Central Plains, you can move to the border.

The eight prefectures in Shuofang only have a population of 100,000, which is too small. It is fine to have a few more 100,000 households.

It would be very amazing if the court could add 10 million households and 10 million 2 million students.

By the way, it would be great to distribute some dissatisfied monks to the frontier.

Thinking of this, Li Chao returned to the study.

Start writing a memorial.

Although Li Chao used to be a monk, he was still secular, and in some ways, this is even more convincing.

"It only takes three years for the Tang Dynasty to destroy Buddhism and have enough national strength to fight against the Turks in the north!"

Li Chao did not forget to take out one of the things that Li Shimin cared about the most, to destroy the Turks and tempt Li Shimin to destroy the Buddha.

"To destroy Buddhism, the Tang Dynasty added 10 million households and all the people, increased 2 million tuition, increased 30 million mu of fertile land, and obtained at least ten million tuitions of wealth. With this gain, the country can only prepare for the Northern Expedition to fight against the Turks!"

After a long journey, Li Chao wrote a memorial of 100,000 words in the end. He detailed the fact that Buddhism has now lost control, the harm to the court, and the many benefits of destroying Buddhism.

Of course, after writing so much, Li Chao actually hopes that when the imperial court destroys Buddhism, he can pick up some vacancy. The power of Buddhism is so powerful that it is amazing to pick up some vacancy at will.

Besides, the quality warehouses of these temples are considered the biggest competitors of the Li family’s pawn shop. The Li family wants to spread the shops all over the world and open hundreds of chain stores. The biggest competitor is the quality warehouses of temples in various places.
Chapter completed!