Back in Chang'an, Li Shimin brought Qin Lang back to Tai Chi Palace.

In Liangyi Hall, the emperor took out a note and threw it in front of Qin Lang, showing off, "Look."

Qin Lang picked it up and looked it through, and found that it was an account book, and the numbers recorded were a bit amazing.

"Since you eliminated the monks and Taoists of Chang'an last year, over the past year, more than 4,600 temples have been demolished in the world, more than 4,600 Lanruo, more than 300,000 monks and nuns have been returned to the land of the temple, more than 200,000 slaves have been collected, more than 500,000 good people who were sent to the temple Afutai, and hundreds of thousands of hectares of land have been confiscated."

"There are scrapped temples, bronze statues, bells and chimes everywhere, and the gold, silver, copper and other products obtained are sold to the Transport Department for millions of guan of gold and silver, and the copper material obtained can be cast for five million guan. The iron tools obtained are delivered to the Transport Department for salt and iron to be cast for agricultural tools......"

Li Shimin stood there proudly and recited the great achievements of this monk.

The Transport Department and the Divine Department, coupled with the joint actions of local prefectures and counties, were quick and efficient. The emperor did not record Taoist temples in his account book. It can be seen that this action was also selective. Although it was said that it was a monk who was a monk who was a monk who was a monk at the beginning, the Taoist power was not very strong at this time, so Li Shimin was the main target of eliminating monks and was much gentler to the Taoist sect.

Zhaoti and Lanruo built private temples among the people. There were more than 40,000 private temples, and nearly 5,000 formal temples were demolished.

There are more than 300,000 monks and nuns who are ordered to return to secular life alone, which is not included in those who have good moral cultivation or are older, but have not been ordered to return to secular life.

According to the emperor, only three temples were left in Chang'an, and a new temple was specially established not long ago. There were 360 ​​monks and nuns in Chang'an. In the rest of the states in the world, there were 30 Shangzhou and 20 Xiazhou, such as Yangzhou, Taiyuan, Yizhou, and Jingzhou, 50 were allowed to stay in big cities like Yangzhou, Taiyuan, Yizhou, and Jingzhou.

There were more than 300 states in the world. In total, the emperor retained more than 7,000 monks, less than 8,000 people. These were all passed the exam and obtained the official monk certificate. Each of them was given twenty acres of land, ten acres of temple production, and ten acres of land for the entourage and distribution, and they were collected after death. These fields were rented and transferred like other people's fields.

There are only three temples in Chang'an that are special. Because they are all famous monks, the emperor gave each of them fifty acres.

"More than 300,000 monks and nuns, more than 200,000 slaves, and more than 500,000 tenants in the temple, which together exceeds one million people." Li Shimin almost gritted his teeth and said.

One million people is a big number for Li Shimin. There were only less than three million households in the official household registration of Wude in the nine years of the Tang Dynasty.

"This does not include those who have been ordained as monks in private to escape taxes and service."

The people the emperor mentioned were mainly those in the places where powerful and wealthy households. If there are three families in the family, one person must be slaughtered. Many so-called slaughtering is to slaughter privately, donate some money to the temple, then shave off their hair, and then become a monk. They can claim to become a monk from the government, exempt from taxes and do not serve labor.

But in fact, these so-called monks do not practice in the temple at all, and still live at home, even marry and have children as usual, and some of them do not shave their hair.

Most of the privately built tricks, Lan Ruoli were built by these fake monks.

This situation is extremely common in local areas. The so-called monks are actually national tax evasions, and the number is extremely astonishing.

Those people were not included among the 300,000 monks and nuns who returned to secular life this time. They were investigated and all ordered to return the household registration.

Not to mention hundreds of thousands of hectares of land, it is tens of millions of acres of land.

One-tenth of the land in the world was actually controlled by these temples before.

This time, Li Shimin really beat up a great local tyrant and went to the temple. The court was full. It was more wealth left by the Li family in Chang'an, Guanzhong, and the Sui Dynasty.

At that time, Li Yuan first started his business with money and silk from the Sui Dynasty in Taiyuan Palace, and then attacked Chang'an and then made a fortune from the treasury, which was the only way to compete for hegemony to gain the world.

The money from the Sui Dynasty has been used almost all these years, and now Li Shimin has found another pig that is fatter than the Sui Dynasty.

In addition, the bronze statues that were demolished in the temple were melted into copper materials and handed over to the coin metering officers, and could cast five million jin of coins. Now, the court's 100 coin furnaces can only cast about 500,000 jin of coins a year, which means that this batch of copper materials can be cast for ten years.

There are millions of gold and silver.

The emperor still wrote not to write it on it, and he went directly to the royal inner court to a lot of temples, mainly the workshops, quality warehouses, etc. that were originally mastered by the big temples. This was also a large sum of money, and it was all embezzled by the emperor.

Of course, Qin Lang had reason to believe that the numbers in this account book were actually not complete. Local prefectures, counties, and even the Transport Department and the Fugong Department must have intercepted some of them. As long as they were not in their personal pockets, they were not afraid of checking them from them. Anyway, they were all in the public database.

It's great to have money.

That's why Li Shimin was so impatient to beat Liang Shidu, who had money to burn.

The original plan was to spend three years to prepare for war and then destroy the Liang Shidu, but now the emperor is rich, very rich, and can't wait for a day.

However, Qin Lang was not very excited.

Anyway, no matter how much money is, he will have nothing to do.

Although the nobles and officials in Chang'an had already been moved and attacked everywhere to loot these temple property. Although no one dared to rob them openly, there was a large number of temple property in various places all at once, and the imperial court wanted to cash in, it was naturally a good time to take the opportunity to buy at the bottom.

Grab the land, grab money, grab the land.

Qin Lang didn't join in the fun.

"Your Majesty, how did Your Majesty place the newly added monks and nuns, temple slaves, temple tenants?"

Although I still copied out tens of millions of acres of land, I divided it up once I copied it out. How could there be any remaining land to accommodate these people?

Sure enough, Li Shimin is not a kind person either.

After the more than 300,000 monks and nuns returned to secular life, the government served as a matchmaker, allowing monks and nuns to get married, and then they were resettled on the spot or moved to the border to gain land and cultivate land.

As for slaves, there will be no savior.

It turned out that they were slaves in temples, but now they have changed their identities and become slaves in government offices. They are then sold to private slaves, or sent to local government workshops or imperial villages to continue to be slaves.

However, the more than 500,000 tenants in the temple have little influence. Although the temple fields have been confiscated, the fields have taken root. If the fields have been changed to owners, the tenants will only change to landlords.

"Your Majesty, after the monks were eliminated, the court did get a lot of money, but these money has not yet played a role. Only after the court uses it can these money be truly converted into national strength. For example, the bronze statue is minted into money, and then bought into grain and stored in warehouses, or sold in trade with salt, tea, wine and cloth, and then sold into money, and then exchanged into mibu war horses and weapons, etc., which is the strength."

"After the disaster last year, not only did the national warehouses have no food, but the people also had no food. Now, the war is in full swing, and food will still become a big problem. If the war is only maintained in the part of the Shuofang, of course it can support it. But if it is fought hard and the Turks get involved, the situation will be out of control. Then the fragile situation will collapse, and it will be even more difficult to turn around at that time."

"Three years of prosperity will lead to prosperity, six years of prosperity will lead to peace, nine years of prosperity will lead to peace. I dare not ask Your Majesty to wait for another nine years to wait for peace in the world to fight again, but please wait for three years, wait until the people's faces are gone, wait for some food in the people's homes, and wait until our Tang Dynasty has a certain risk defense ability before taking action."

"Your Majesty, I've been waiting for so many years, why not wait?"

Li Shimin's enthusiasm was extinguished.

Originally, he thought that his wife and son-in-law would support him and could understand him, but unexpectedly, Qin Lang, who had always been used to being reckless, began to shout and stop.

Originally, he even wanted Qin Lang to be responsible for military supplies, and then he took Li Jing as the vanguard and personally led the army to destroy Liang Shidu in one fell swoop.

Seeing that Li Shimin's evil fire was blocked, Qin Lang said goodbye.

"I want to take half a month off and go back to the countryside to harvest wheat."

Li Shimin looked at him angrily, "You have a lot of land, but you don't need to harvest wheat, right?"

Qin Lang thought to himself, you emperor, don’t you also hold a summer harvest ceremony? As a big landlord with 100,000 acres of fertile land, I have to do the scene. Although I will definitely not go on stage to harvest wheat by wielding sickles, I have to be responsible for logistics supply and demand, and I have to reward the people who collect grain.

"You actually did the two poems about compassion for farmers today?" Li Shimin threw the account book back to the corner of the case. He sat on the couch with a playful smile on his lips.

In fact, how could Li Shimin not know his son? He was only nine years old. Although he had been with Lu Deming and Kong Yingda since he was a child, he could never write this poem about mercy on the farmer.

Especially for a crown prince like Chengqian, who was raised in the deep palace since childhood, how could he truly experience the sufferings of the people and know the preciousness of food?

"Your Majesty, I dare not rob the prince's poem!"

Li Shimin snorted, "You don't have to pretend in front of me. I won't blame you for this."

Although I knew that Chengqian's poem was written by Qin Lang, I was still very happy that everyone praised the scene when Chengqian was.

"You go to the countryside and bring Chengqian with you. Anyway, Chongxian Pavilion is on holiday. You, the young master of the prince, will take Chengqian as a student, to learn about the countryside civil affairs and let him see how every grain of food is hard to work."

Qin Lang smashed his mouth, and he was not willing to take the prince to the countryside. After all, the crown prince of a country was making any mistakes when he was out, so he couldn't afford to take it.

"I will transfer a team of troops from the Hundred Cavalry Division, the Palace Front Division, and the Punishment Division to you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Take good care of Chengqian, but there is a problem, you are the only one who asks."

"I obey the order."

"Is the 100,000 guan I gave to the East Palace before enough? Do you want to add some capital to you?"

"If your Majesty is willing, it's better to transfer Kaiyuan Money House to the East Palace!"

Qin Lang is a little more aggressive.

As a result, Li Shimin was not easy to fool him. He had long seen the ability of Kaiyuan Money House to make money, so he refused without hesitation.
Chapter completed!