There are one hill and eight buildings in the Northern Prefecture of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chapter 4176: Offering fields to the Buddha and returning to aristocratic families
Chapter 4176: Offering fields to the Buddha and returning to aristocratic families
The black robe laughed: "Yes, so after entering Buddhism, the poor people at the bottom still have to work hard to support the children of the aristocratic families who are knowledgeable and educated and can copy Buddhist scriptures. But these children of the aristocratic families are also shaved.
After receiving the ordination, putting on the cassock, and entering Buddhism, the poor people will have the illusion that if they practice in a temple, they are equal brothers, and they will get great psychological satisfaction."
"Because the people at the bottom are uneducated and illiterate, they are allowed to do what they can, which is to plant fields and water vegetables. They will not have any complaints. They did these things when they were not monks and became farmers, and they did these for the Buddha after they became monks.
How can you be dissatisfied if you want to accumulate merit and do good deeds for the next life? So, the original conflict with high-ranking families like you has been resolved. In the Buddhist temple, as long as you work, you don’t have to pay taxes. Although there are
There are all kinds of rules and regulations, but at least I can feel free and free, and I don’t have to be someone else’s boss anymore.”
Yu Yue sighed: "This move is really powerful, really amazing. The current villagers and tenant farmers have been awakened by Liu Yu's propaganda, thinking that the powerful families and nobles are riding on their heads.
They have taken away the land and resources that originally belonged to them, and they want to take them back from us. The way to do it is to follow Liu Yu to fight in the Northern Expedition and establish military merit. As long as you perform meritorious service and get a title, you can
Owning your own land and industry uprightly, hehe, but this requires a huge risk of life. You may be excited and excited for a while, but if you really continue to fight, you will know how many battles have been fought since ancient times.
Where do people go back?"
The black robe nodded: "If they are not forced to live, normal people are not willing to go to war, because the risk of losing their lives is too high. No matter how high a title you earn, it will be in vain if you lose your life. However, if you don't fight,
If you don't join the army, you won't have the chance to make meritorious service, and you will be oppressed by your noble family for generations. Therefore, when there is no other choice, you can only follow Liu Yu. After all, he has proven that he can win battles.
, which can distribute a large amount of titles and land to ordinary people."
"But Liu Yu can't guarantee that every farmer who joins the army can achieve meritorious service, let alone that everyone can come back safely from the battlefield. Following him is still a huge risk, so if there is another way, you don't have to risk your life.
Even in danger, you can still gain hope, and you can also have a happy life, so many people will definitely choose it."
Yu Yue said without thinking: "This is Buddhism, but you also said that you can't let everyone become a monk, so that no one in the country will farm. In other words, this method still cannot benefit everyone.
Liu Yu will still recruit troops from most people, right?"
The black robe smiled slightly: "This depends on the cooperation with your noble family. We can discuss the number of temples and the number of monks. In other words, on the surface, the noble family gives these temples incense money, but in fact
These temples are still the estates of high-ranking families. Except for a small part of the output for the temple's own use, most of it is still handed over to your major families. The monks in these temples can mainly protect them as the concubines of your families.
As secret guards and reliable villagers and tenants, in this way, these emerging temples will become your supernumerary manors, which can be used by your own people. Isn't it wonderful?"
Yu Yue shook his head and said: "You mean, the newly built temple has become our new family manor? Does that mean we need to donate our existing manor as a Buddhist temple, and then let the concubines, guards and villagers join in?
What? According to what you say, we will lose some ready-made manors, and we will also need to mobilize a large number of skilled farmers. If the tenants enter these temples, wouldn't this be bleeding themselves?"
The black robe smiled and waved his hand: "Yugong, don't worry, the old ones won't go, and the new ones won't come. Those old villagers and tenants have entered the temple to pursue their spiritual practice in the afterlife. The manor is not empty.
Are there a lot of quotas for tenant farmers and bookmakers? Tell me, who will fill these vacancies?"
Yu Yue's eyes lit up: "Are you saying that the common people, who are self-cultivated farmers, will sell their property again, donate land to our aristocratic family, and become our tenant farmers because they evade Liu Yu's order to recruit soldiers and pay grain?"
The black robe squinted his eyes and nodded: "Now you finally understand my plan. As long as the Buddhist view of accumulating virtue and doing good and killing sins can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, let ordinary people feel that the Buddha cares more about them than Liu Yu.
Even better, let them feel that the risk of losing their lives on the battlefield is higher than the reward after victory. Let them feel that even if they kill people to achieve military merit and get a title, they have also created bad karma, and there will inevitably be various consequences in the afterlife or
As for the retribution in this world, naturally no one will be happy when they hear about the war and think of killing people to achieve meritorious service."
"The Northern Expedition that Liu Yu dreamed of was not wanted by the vast majority of the people of the Jin Dynasty, and was not very interesting to the powerful families and nobles. In the past, the Northern Expedition of the Jin Dynasty was just fought by powerful ministers in order to gain more power.
Banner, Liu Yu is the only one who really wants the Northern Expedition. But if the result of this Northern Expedition is that the Jin Dynasty is almost destroyed and all the people suffer military disasters, then no one will believe Liu Yu's plan in the future. If Buddha
The spirit appeared and the reinforcements of the Later Qin Dynasty were sent to save the Jin Dynasty. Leaders of aristocratic families like you, Yu Gong, took the lead in promoting Buddhism and making the people believe that following Liu Yu would be miserable and that converting to Buddhism would be happy. Then they would naturally worship Liu Yu as they did before.
, turned to worship Buddha."
Yu Yue smiled and nodded: "It sounds very good, especially the latter point, which can bring practical benefits to our wealthy family. However, can Liu Yu agree to this? If he does not allow the spread of Buddhism, he will have strong soldiers and forcefully advance again.
If Beijing seizes power, what should we do?”
The black robe sneered: "Yugong, tell me, when Zu Ti conquered a large area of the country and controlled the entire Central Plains during the Northern Expedition, why did Sima Rui order someone to replace him? Zu Ti would rather be pissed to death than
How about raising troops to march to Beijing?"
Yu Yue smiled and said: "That's because General Zu Ti is loyal. As a guard of the mafia, it's not easy to break up with other guards. You want to say that Liu Yu served the country with loyalty to the emperor and went on the Northern Expedition.
Righteousness is a prestige, so if we are kicked out of the capital this time, we can only serve as a border general in Jiangbei and Qilu, and it will be impossible to fight back to Jiankang?"