"Your Majesty, is it a very rumored thing about banning Buddhism and Taoism recently?"

Luo Cheng smiled, "A person with intentions deliberately spread rumors. I have never said that I should forbidden Buddhism and Taoism, nor did I think so, nor did I have such a plan. However, you have grown up in temples, but you should have heard that there are also bad horses in Buddhism and Taoism. For example, the Maitreya religion in Buddhism, they have made trouble several times. In Taoism, there are also things like Sun Enshi who worshipped five dou of rice and rebelled in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. These people rely on Buddhism and Taoism, have bad intentions and use believers to make trouble, and have to be careful."

When Monk Xu heard this, he felt relieved. Although he had returned to secular life, his position in Buddhism was still extremely heavy in his heart, and it was hard to give up, like bloodlines connected.

"The excessive worship of Buddhism during the Sui and Yang periods has indeed led to chaos and disorder in Buddhism. A large number of private temples were built, and many criminals and scoundrels pretended to be monks, and did illegal things, corrupting Buddhist customs and causing very bad effects. Therefore, the court should introduce laws and regulations to manage them instead of rumoral prohibitions."

The court, the county, and the county level will set up special monk and Taoist management agencies to be responsible for managing the world's temples and monks and Taoist temples. Therefore, all temples and Taoist temples in the world must be registered, and all monks and Taoist temples must be registered and issued genealogy.

"Temples and temples with less than 20 people will be resided together, and temples with more than 20 people will be retained, but temples with more than 100 people will be discontinued. The merged empty temples will be discontinued."

"All existing temples must be registered, and existing monks and Taoists must also be registered. After a special Buddhist and Taoist examination, those who pass the exam will be issued a certificate of sacrificial certificate. Those who do not understand the meaning of Buddhist and Taoist sutras will naturally fail and will force them to return to secular life."

In addition, the court also issued a law that stipulates that illegal temples that occupy fertile land and occupy civilian land will be demolished. At the same time, specific standards have been set for the decoration, utensils, scale and specifications of temples, and those who violate the temple will be demolished and banned.

Specifically, temples are not allowed to build brackets, paint beams and pillars, and except for the original ones, bronze statues, gold pastes, and paint, etc. are not allowed to be cast.

The capital city has a monk's and a Daolu Department, and officials are sent to take charge of monks and Taoist affairs in the world. The Dao level is a monk's and Taoist bureau, the county level is a monk's and Taoist bureau, and the county level is a monk's and Taoist bureau.

In all levels of monks and Taoist management yamen, the chief officials were appointed by the court, and the adjutant would choose a famous monk and Taoist.

These monks and Taoists have no salary and specialized official robes and seals, and their ranks are considered.

Monks and Taoist yamen at all levels are responsible for managing Buddhist affairs, such as the registration and management of temples, such as the management of monks and Taoist disciplines, ordination examinations, etc. Those who violate the law and discipline will also be handed over to them for special handling.

In addition, there is another special rule, which is that women are prohibited from burning incense and worshiping Buddha in temples. Women are only allowed to go to nunnies and female Taoist temples. Violators burn incense and women and temples must be punished. The addition of this article is a pure atmosphere for officials to express.

The size of temples is also divided into three categories: large temples, middle temples, and small temples. The large temples are fifty to one hundred people, middle temples are thirty to fifty people, and small temples are twenty to thirty people.

Each temple must strictly possess monks and Taoists according to its own level and must not exceed the amount. Only when there is a vacancies can they be ordained again, and must be evaluated and approved by the court's monks and Taoists' yamen.

At the same time, the court also stipulated that the temples and temples in each county should adopt the method of mutual protection of ten families, that is, ten temples of the same size should be connected to protect each other and supervise each other to prevent illegal incidents such as privately orphan monks and Taoists, privately tolerate prisoners, and privately lending and occupying land.

If one company violates the law, other companies must expose it. If one company finds out, those who do not report the law will also be punished.

In each temple, there is also a law of sitting in a row, ten people are in charge, and they are supervised by each other. They are not allowed to collude with women, are not allowed to scatter spies, are not allowed to host thieves and criminals, are not allowed to hold meat banquets, are not allowed to gamble, are not allowed to occupy tenants' property, are not allowed to wander around.........

Each monk and Taoist plaque is awarded an oil plaque with the age, appearance, origin, etc. written on it, and it is inspected by officials from time to time.

For the handling of illegal monks, there are imprisonment and labor reform, deprivation of genealogy, exile of troops, etc.

"The Qin Dynasty has no place outside the law, no people outside the rule, and Buddhist, Taoist, temples and temples are no exception."

These laws and regulations have only one purpose. The ultimate goal of management is to let the Buddhist path return to its original origin. You can worship Buddhism and believe in it. As long as you encourage people to do good, you will do it without preaching sins. As for other things, don’t get involved.

"The land of monks and Taoists is ten acres, and the land is not increased if the land is insufficient, and the land is not recovered. If the land of the temple is tenant to the people and rented seeds, the land will be directly collected and given to the people."

This is the most cruel thing. The monks and Taoists in temples are allowed to own land, but they can only have a maximum of ten acres per person, and they are not allowed to rent out the rent. They can only plant themselves. If they don’t plant themselves, they will have to collect them.

According to such new regulations, Shaolin Temple has hundreds of monks, and they also have a large number of slaves, also known as Jingren. There are thousands of Jingren in Shaolin, all of whom are slaves in the temple, doing some farming, sweeping and other matters.

Their land is more than 30,000 acres, and there is also a large amount of temple property for lending, and there is a pledge warehouse that specializes in mortgage loans.

"Because Shaolin has made contributions, I plan to retain one hundred monks in Shaolin, Songshan, and the rest of the monks will let them go to the border to build new temples to encourage Xuanren to be kind."

The Shaolin Temple in Songshan left them a hundred monks, which is the highest limit of monks in the large temple. The hundreds of people who exceeded them were arranged to build new temples in North Korea, outside the frontier, Yunnan, Qinghai and other places. After all, new immigrants also have faith needs in these border areas. The temples can sometimes give these immigrants a lot of comfort.

Of course, the hundreds of monks in Shaolin Temple also need to be evaluated.

There are some Buddhist scriptures that do not understand at all. This kind of thing is to persuade them to return to secular life, while the pure people in their temples, that is, all the temple slaves in the temple, should be spared and returned to good fortune.

One thousand acres of land in the temple were left for the temple, and the rest were taken back to the court. Of course, the court's public statement was to replace them in the border areas to establish branch temples and build new temple fields.

Of course, even if only one thousand acres of land is left, two taxes are still required, and rent is collected based on acres and the lease rate is the same. In addition, the temple also needs to collect household taxes based on the scale of the temple.

Monk Xu was stunned and dazed.

These new laws and regulations are simply too strict.

Although it was not a robbery like Wang Shichong, they were given one curse after another.

"When Buddhist temples and Taoist temples return to their original origins, monks and Taoists should also return to their faith. Let the secular affairs be left to the court!"

Luo Cheng's words made Monk Xu not know how to defend himself.
Chapter completed!