Chapter 507: Exterminate the religion and enrich the country
In December, people infected with acne appeared in Lulianzhou, Guangdong.
The imperial court ordered the Guangdong Road Epidemic Prevention Bureau to support Lianzhou and vaccinate all the people in Lianzhou to prevent the spread of acne in Lianzhou.
After the cowpox invented by Chao Yong proved to be effective, Chao Gai ordered all states to establish epidemic prevention bureaus to artificially spread cowpox, cultivate vaccines, and vaccinate the people. However, due to restrictions on doctors and vaccines, not everyone was vaccinated.
There are more buffaloes in Guangdong and Guangxi. Everyone originally thought that after Guangdong Road transferred doctors from nearby state capitals, all the people in Lianzhou could be vaccinated against acne quickly. However, people in many villages refused to be vaccinated, resulting in five
More than a thousand people were infected with acne, and within a short time, more than 2,000 people died.
Chao Gai ordered the local censor to conduct an investigation, and finally found out that a monk was deceiving the people, saying that after being vaccinated with cowpox, they would be reborn as cows in their next life, causing many people to rather die than be vaccinated.
When Chao Yong learned that it was the monk who had committed the crime, he immediately came to the palace.
Chao Gai had just received the news, and his face was ashen. When he saw Chao Yong entering the palace, he couldn't help but said: "It's so ridiculous. If you get vaccinated with cowpox and you are reincarnated into a cow, what will happen to those who eat beef in their next life?"
,cow dung?”
Chao Yong nodded and said: "Those religious lies have deceived the public, and they often use talismans to treat diseases, killing countless people. I ask my father to order an order to ban all religions to prevent today's disaster from happening again."
Chao Gai thought for a while, nodded and said: "We discussed this matter before, but the time was not ripe at that time. Now that the world is unified and the imperial rule has been stabilized, it is time to implement this matter."
Then he said to the eunuch waiting beside him: "Go and invite the other five ministers."
"yes."
Not long after the eunuch left, five ministers arrived one after another.
After everyone discussed it, they made a decree banning all religions, destroying all religious buildings and classics, confiscating all religious properties, ordering religious people to leave the religion, killing those who spread the doctrines without mercy, hiding them privately, and giving alms to religious people with a hundred rods and exile.
Three thousand miles.
In the third year of the Apocalypse, on January 17, the imperial court promulgated a regulation prohibiting all religions. Officers and soldiers from various states were dispatched at the same time, destroying temples, Taoist temples and other religious buildings in the territory, ordering religious people to return to the common people, and confiscating religious property.
Many temples and Taoist temples in Tokyo did not escape. As soon as the imperial decree came out, the soldiers and horses in the city surrounded these religious buildings. Everyone was expelled and ordered to return to their hometowns. The imperial court gave everyone a constant amount of money. Although the money was not much,
But they will not starve to death. Residential homes and Anjiyuan have expanded from the state capital to all counties.
The payment of money for knighthoods and the mirror industry made the imperial treasury abundant. In addition, the country had a bumper harvest in the second year of Tianqi and the imperial court expanded the nursing home. Anjiyuan did not put much pressure on the finances.
Some monks and Taoists who pretended to be living Bodhisattvas and living gods came to the palace and asked to see the emperor. They were all dispersed by the imperial guards and ordered to return to secular life. Those who refused to return to secular life were killed without mercy.
Most of the monks and monks dispersed when they saw that Chao Gai was determined. Only some obsessed monks and monks were ready to sacrifice themselves for the gods and Buddhas. They were all captured by the imperial guards and taken to the entrance of the vegetable market to be executed.
After killing more than a dozen monks, no one dared to protest in front of the palace anymore.
Except for a few common people in Bianjing City who complained for the monks and Taoists, most of the common people felt that the imperial court was doing a good job. Since the imperial court established the national policy of exterminating all religions, newspapers have continued to publish religious deceptions. Many common people have been deceived by religion.
Liars have deceived people. After the court exposed those deceptive tricks, most people no longer believed in those gods and Buddhas.
If there really is a god in Daliang, it can only be the prince, who is invincible, invented cowpox, so that the world no longer has to worry about acne, and can make people fly.
Although those gods and Buddhas are said to be omnipotent, when acne comes, their followers cannot escape the disease. No matter how pious they are, the gods and Buddhas will not appear.
The situation in various places was similar. After the court newspapers exposed religious deceptions for a long time, the number of religious believers decreased. The remaining few believers were frightened by the force of the imperial court, and no one dared to have any objections.
Seeing that there was no place for religion in Daliang, some stubborn monks went to other countries to start their own business.
A month later, the imperial court summarized the results of the extermination of religions in various states. Nearly one million households were registered in various places, more than 10 million hectares of farmland were confiscated, and countless gold and silver utensils were confiscated. The confiscated money of various religions in the royal bank account alone amounted to more than 20 million yuan.
, I don’t know how many deposit certificates and banknotes are hidden by religious people.
The imperial government had just begun to exterminate religions, and without the restraints of religion, there were bald men who were suspected of having just returned to secular life, swaying through the streets and spending money like water in brothels.
Chao Gai ordered the confiscated bronze Buddhas, bells, gold and silver vessels to be used to cast coins, iron statues to be cast into farm implements, and the confiscated land to be auctioned.
After the extermination of religion, the national treasury was abundant, and the imperial court announced a reduction in the price of salt, from fifty cents per catty in the first year of Tianqi to ten cents per catty. The prices of alum, charcoal, and lamp oil monopolized by the court were also reduced.
In the past, the lamp oil used by the people was vegetable oil or animal fat. Chao Yong had people distill the petroleum to make kerosene. After adding gasoline, the lamp oil used by the people became kerosene. The gasoline replaced the original fire oil, which added a financial source to the court.
Added a sharp weapon to Daliang soldiers and horses.
It can be said that the whole country benefited from the extermination of religion, and the military and civilians rejoiced. However, there were also a few stubborn religious figures and ordinary people who secretly hid religious figures. Tens of thousands of people were sent to the frontiers to open up wasteland.
Although the Daxiangguo Temple in Bianjing City was built magnificently, Chao Yong still ordered the complete razing of the Daxiangguo Temple in order to prevent the extermination of religion. There were dozens of large and small temples and Taoist temples that were razed in Bianjing City.
As soon as the temples were razed, many people began to focus on these lands. Although Daliang had just been established two years ago, the world was unified, free of corvee, and light on taxes. There was already a scene of great governance in the world, and every inch of land in Bianjing City was precious.
Especially after Chao Yong announced the establishment of a nobility college, large families from all over the country who paid money to confer knighthoods flocked to Bianjing to buy houses and properties in Bianjing to facilitate the education of their children and grandchildren, which directly caused the housing prices in Bianjing to rise.
Some old people in Liangshan who were allocated houses were dazzled by the prices shouted by big houses from all over the country, so they sold their houses. The next day they heard another price, and they could only stamp their feet and complain.
Therefore, after the temples in Bianjing were razed, several Liangshan old men came to Chao Gai, hoping to buy the land from the imperial court and build houses.
With Chao Gai's character, it was impossible to ask them for a high price, so he could only ask the Ministry of Revenue to do things cheaply.
The divine fortune teller Jiang Jing thought about it for a while and then came to the crown prince's womb.
During this period, Chao Yong was formulating the curriculum for the aristocratic academy. More than fifty princes and more than sixty princesses had been born in the crown prince's womb. In a few years, enlightenment education would begin.
Chao Yong hoped that when his children grew up, there would be a mature academy instead of a rough aristocratic academy, so he wanted to establish an aristocratic academy as soon as possible.
Those barons who were vying to enter the aristocratic college became Chao Yong's guinea pigs. However, the grassroots aristocratic college would not mislead the students. The professors Chao Yong planned to hire were all great Confucians. Even if these children from wealthy families were not dandies, 90% of them would be
Jiu had no chance to become a disciple of these great scholars. Of course, Chao Yong did not know whether these great scholars would be so angry with the barons that they would walk away.
Chao Yong asked the palace servants to serve tea to Jiang and said with a smile: "The Ministry of Revenue must be very busy these days. Why do you have time to come to my place?"
Jiang Jing smiled and said: "You don't have to go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. The capital destroyed those temples and Taoist temples, and there was a lot of land. Someone came to the emperor to buy this land. I came to see if the prince wants to use it. If not,
I asked them to choose a few places and put the rest up for public auction, so that no one would come to the Ministry of Finance to make it difficult for me."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "Who has found the emperor?"
Jiang Jing shook his head and said: "Bai Sheng, Du Qian, and Song Wan."
Chao Yong couldn't help but feel a little unhappy after hearing this.
When he wanted to conquer the world, these three people were unwilling to make progress. Later, they never participated in the war and just hid in the rear. After the world was unified, these three people enjoyed the success. When the court rewarded the founding ministers, these three people also joined the founding of the country.
Viscount Jean Chao Yong was quite aggrieved, but Chao Gai insisted, and Chao Yong could not say much.
The rest of the founding generals: Lu Junyi and Lin Chong were awarded the title of founding Duke; Yan Qing, Guan Sheng, Hu Yanzhuo, Shi Wengong, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Qin Ming, Hua Rong, Dong Ping, Zhang Qing, Li Ying, Luan Tingyu, Yang Zhi, Xu Ning,
Suo Chao
, Liu Tang, Li Kui, Sun Li, Shi Xiu, Mu Hong, and Hu Cheng were awarded the title of Founding Marquis; Xuan Zan, Hao Siwen, Han Tao, Peng Qi, Wei Dingguo, Shan Tinggui, Gong Wang, Ding Desun, Fan Rui, Shui Jun
Li Jun, Ruan Xiaoer, Ruan Xiaowu
, Ruan Xiaoqi, Zhang Heng, Zhang Shun, Intelligence Department Dai Zong, Shi Qian, Zhu Gui, Gunpowder Bureau Ling Zhen, Guns Bureau Tang Long were awarded Kai Guobo; Chao Yong's personal soldiers leaders Shi Yong, Xue Yong, Xie Zhen, Xie
Bao, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Yang Xiong,
Sun Xin, Zou Yuan, Zou Run, Navy Tong Wei, Tong Meng, Bai Sheng, Du Qian, Song Wan, Intelligence Department Sun Erniang, Zhang Qing, Zhu Fu, Li Li, Duan Jingzhu, Jiao Ting, Xiang Chong, Li
Gun, Zheng Tianshou and others were awarded the title of Viscount of the Founding of the People's Republic of China.
Civil servants Wu Yong and Zhao Mingcheng were awarded the title of Founding Duke, Gongsun Sheng, Chai Jin and Jiang Jing were awarded the title of Founding Marquis.
Zhang Shuye, Wang Huan, Li Congji, Zhang Kai, Han Cunbao, Liu Menglong, Han Shizhong, Liu Qi, Yao Pingzhong and others were also awarded titles, but none of them were the founding lords. All the founding lords were Daliang who were in the court when Daliang was established in Qingzhou.
Except for Zhao Mingcheng, the people among them can be said to be all old men from Liangshan.
Because Shi Yong and others have been guarding Chao Yong, they have not made many achievements and can only be ranked as Viscount. The credit of everyone in the Intelligence Department is not small, but when Bai Sheng, Du Qian, and Song Wan have the same title as them, Chao Yong is a little bit
Unwilling to do so. Just because there were too many barons, and the lowest among the founding generals was a viscount. Chao Gai did not want to let the three of them fail, so Chao Yong could only reward the leaders of his soldiers in private.
Chao Yong said displeased: "What do they want the land for?"
Jiang Jingdao: "They have sold all the houses given by the emperor to wealthy businessmen from the south of the Yangtze River. The bigger houses in the capital are now ridiculously expensive. They want to buy land and build houses again."
"For short-sighted people, then sell them land according to the size of the house that the imperial court previously rewarded them. The price can be lower, but it cannot exceed the original area. The remaining land will not be auctioned in a hurry. It will be said to the outside world that the Ministry of War has bought it all.
Now, I want to build houses for Liangshan veterans so that they will not be unable to afford houses in the capital after they retire."
Jiang Jingdao: "The total land is only about a thousand acres, so I'm afraid we won't be able to build many houses."
Chao Yong smiled and said: "If one floor doesn't work, we can build a few more floors."
Jiang Jing shook his head and said: "I'm afraid there are also etiquette issues involved, and people from the Ministry of Industry should know about it."
Chao Yong nodded and said: "Well, I'll go back and ask the people from the Ministry of Industry to make plans to at least accommodate the Liangshan veterans who want to settle in the capital."
Jiang Jing cupped his hands and said: "The prince is benevolent and righteous. It is a great blessing for the Liangshan brothers to follow the prince."
Chao Yong shook his head and said: "Without the old brothers from Liangshan, how would the world of Liang be today? It is my father and son's fortune to have the brothers from Liangshan follow me, and the world is lucky. It is a pity that some brothers cannot see the world of Liang."
Having said this, Chao Yong felt that it was even more difficult to start a business, so he immediately asked the official in charge of housing construction from the Ministry of Works to come.
Jiang Jinglue sat down and then said goodbye and left. The household department was busy with affairs, but there was no room for him to sit idle.
When the Ministry of Industry doctor in charge of housing construction arrived, Chao Yong had already thought of a plan.
The doctor from the Ministry of Works thought that the prince wanted to repair the palace or other palaces. Hearing that he wanted to build houses for Liangshan veterans, he couldn't help but said: "There is no shortage of craftsmen from the Ministry of Works, but the Ministry of Household Affairs needs to allocate money first before construction can begin.
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Chao Yong thought for a while and said: "This money will come from the Taiwong. You make a budget. I will allocate the money to you directly from the Taiwong. The drawings are here."
If the money has to be paid from the Ministry of War, then the house cannot be exclusively used by Liangshan veterans, but if it benefits the entire army, the imperial court has the financial resources and the capital does not have so much land, so Chao Yong decided to privately finance it. After the construction is completed, the imperial court has the financial resources.
Selling it to Liangshan Veteran at a low price will not make him lose all his money.
The Royal Bank has expanded to all the prefectures in Daliang, and branch offices have been established in a few prosperous counties. Moreover, banknotes have been circulated throughout the country, and the Bank no longer needs to escort large sums of cash to and from various places.
In the second year of the Apocalypse, the royal bank account made a profit of more than 20 million yuan. Although the imperial court auctioned fields in the north, after the imperial court exterminated the religion in the third year of the Apocalypse, more fields were auctioned. There is no doubt that in the third year of the Apocalypse, the royal bank account made a profit of more than 20 million yuan.
The profit will be more.
Just from the profits of the royal bank in the past two years, the wealth of the Crown Prince can be compared with the treasury surplus when Cai Jing deceived Zhao Ji into enjoying himself.
Of course, Daliang's treasury has more wealth, so no one is interested in the crown prince's uterus.
Chao Yong did not design a tube building, but the second floor of a separate courtyard. The first floor was used for the living room and kitchen, and the second floor was used for the bedrooms. The courtyard was not big, but the families with large courtyards in Bianjing City were either rich or noble.
Many people built this kind of small second floor. The doctor from the Ministry of Industry understood it after looking at it and said: "It is not difficult to build this kind of house, but I don't know what materials to use? Adobe bricks are the cheapest, wood is in the middle, and blue bricks
The most expensive.”
Chao Yong naturally would not think about cutting corners and asked: "If I bake the green bricks myself, can't I reduce the cost?"
The doctor from the Ministry of Industry shook his head and said: "Even if you build a kiln and bake bricks, the cost of green bricks is very high, and the labor cost and charcoal consumption are very large. Large households in the countryside rarely use green bricks."
Chao Yong thought of red bricks, which were very common in later generations, and couldn't help but ask: "Can red bricks be made by burning them?"
The doctor from the Ministry of Industry nodded and said: "Red bricks are easier to bake than blue bricks, and the cost can be reduced a lot, but according to the etiquette, ordinary people cannot use red bricks to build houses."
Chao Yong didn't think about this problem. He was stunned and said: "I will solve this problem. You arrange for craftsmen to build kilns and bake red bricks. All houses will be built with red bricks. There is no need to make a budget. Just make good account books.
I'll have it checked later."
Even if it is not for the Liangshan veterans, it is worth spending more money just to unlock the prohibition of red bricks for the people all over the world.
Naturally, the doctor from the Ministry of Works would not doubt that the prince could not solve the problem of the Ministry of Rites, and said respectfully: "Yes, I will arrange for the craftsmen to build the house now."
When the first batch of red bricks appeared in Bianjing City, the people in the city learned that the imperial court had allowed the people to use red bricks, so they asked around about the price of red bricks.
Businessmen in the city saw that red bricks were profitable, so they also built kilns outside the city to bake bricks.
For a time, red bricks could be seen everywhere in Bianjing City, and people with better-off families began to build red brick houses. Blue bricks were expensive, and except for a few dignitaries who used blue bricks to build their houses, most people used civil structures. The richer ones
of wooden houses,
They are just as beautiful, but once a fire breaks out, they can easily expand quickly and burn to ashes. Ordinary people cannot afford an all-wood structure, so they can only use a combination of earth and wood to build their houses. The more prosperous ones still use adobe bricks, and the poorer ones use adobe bricks.
I can't even afford the adobe bricks.
Of course, the lifting of the ban on red bricks does not mean that everyone can use them, but there are still many people who will benefit, and it will also increase the court's business tax.
Within two months, rows of beautiful red brick buildings were built.
The newly built red brick buildings are much more beautiful than the blue brick houses of large households, which has attracted many large households to demolish their blue brick houses and rebuild them into red brick buildings.
The colors in the border city are also much brighter. In the past, except for the red walls and green tiles of the palace and the red-painted gates of a few dignitaries, there were gray buildings. The whole city seemed very depressing. Of course, this is what modern people saw, but what ancient people saw
Most of them are mud houses. Occasionally, when you see a blue brick house, your eyes will light up.
Of course, the red brick building cannot be compared with the red paint walls of the palace. The walls of the palace are made of fine red paint, which is bright red, while the red bricks are a bit dark red.
When the houses were completed and Chao Yong sold them to Liangshan veterans at a price of one hundred guan per yard, the people in the city knew who these houses were built for.
In the second year of the Apocalypse, a small earthen house in Bianjing could be sold for one hundred guan, and now the price is even higher. After people in the city learned about the price that the prince had set for Liangshan veterans, they immediately found Liangshan veterans and were willing to pay a higher price from them.
They bought it with their hands. Therefore, all the courtyards built by the Ministry of Industry were bought by Liangshan veterans. However, except for a few people who felt that the houses built on the temples were unlucky to change hands, most people settled in Bianjing.
Liangshan veterans currently have the lowest rank of Dutou. Anyone above Dutou does not have to worry about being forced to retire. Their monthly salary is ten guan, which is enough to settle down in Bianjing. Moreover, they have participated in the most battles and received hundreds of various rewards.
Yes, they are all well-off families in the capital. (To be continued...)