novelslam Chapter 833: The Advantage Is Mine
Chapter 833: The Advantage Is Mine
After Xu Qing returned home, he immediately started to arrange everything.
And informed Taoist Chunyang in advance of the impure motivation of the country, and the idea of making gunpowder formulas, so that Taoist Chunyang took precautions.
But Taoist Master Chunyang said that it is better for them to have more people. Last time, his pill refining blew up a big hole in the roof again.
Several disciples also blew up a small hole in the roof during pill refining.
Now their pill refining room needs someone to fix it again.
Others need seven or eight people.
Therefore, Taoist Chunyang hopes that Wa Kingdom will be more sensible this time. Don’t just send two people over like the prairie last time, and they will not be able to do the work of masons. It's also very ugly and not strong enough, it's too uninteresting!
No, now Taoist Chunyang's pill refining blows up the place where the two prairie people repaired, and the hole in the roof is even bigger.
It is said that Wa Kingdom has been learning from the Central Plains since the Han Dynasty, and its architecture is not much different from that of the Central Plains.
It's wonderful!
Taoist Priest Chunyang needs this kind of talent!
After they are repaired, send them to see the sky, so that the labor force in the sky will be more abundant.
This added another merit to Chunyang Taoist Temple.
It is quite perfect.
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It can be said that Taoism has made great progress in Chu State in the past two years.
The scale is far beyond Buddhism, and it has become the most widespread religion for Chu believers.
Of course, this kind of rapid development is not only related to the reputation of Taoist priest Chunyang, but also fueled by the court of Chu State.
The court of the state of Chu is deliberately suppressing the development of Buddhism in the state of Chu, and Xiao Ye is behind this.
Of course, more of it comes from the decision of King Xian and Emperor Chu.
It's not that Taoism is better than Buddhist teachings.
Taoism cultivates this life, Buddhism cultivates the afterlife.
The court's support of Taoism has nothing to do with the doctrine.
In terms of benefits to the rulers, it must be that Buddhism is relatively large, and most rulers must give priority to supporting Buddhism.
Why?
Buddhism pays attention to cultivating the afterlife, so you should suffer in this life!
If you endure hardships in this life, you will enjoy blessings in the next life!
So let's suffer with peace of mind, how bitter this life is, how happy the next life will be.
As long as the people believe in this, will they still cause trouble everywhere because of the injustice of the world?
Will you be free to play rebellion and rebellion?
That's not all of them are willing to endure hardships and stand hard work, willing to be squeezed out of the maximum use value by the ruler, just to live a good life in the illusory afterlife.
It can also greatly consolidate the imperial rule.
If you look at Zhao Guo, Buddhism has never been more prosperous than before, and it is still resigned to being bullied like that by foreigners. The emperor is a strong supporter of Buddhism.
If there hadn't been a King Ming, the common people would not have thought of rebelling in the past.
Which religion the ruler supports and which religion to suppress is definitely not based on personal likes and dislikes, but on the interests of the country he rules.
Take the state of Chu as an example.
Buddhism doesn't pay taxes, and I don't know which dynasty the bad customs came from.
No matter how much incense money the Buddhist sect collects, it is own!
No money!
Then, Buddhists used the incense money to buy real estate, and the real estate was leased to tenants, and the rent of these lands was still not taxed.
The rulers can't force these monks to pay taxes, otherwise, the believers will backlash, saying that the rulers have no talent, no virtue, disrespect to gods and Buddhas, blah, blah, blah, blah.
In short, the ruler's forced taxation will cause instability among the people.
Chu State is notoriously short of money among the Three Kingdoms, but it has a lot of military equipment.
Your Buddhist teachings have unexpected benefits in appeasing the hearts of the people, but you are buying more and more real estate, and you don’t pay any taxes, and the national fiscal revenue is getting less and less!
After a few years, if you buy up all the land, will the country still have to collect taxes? Is the imperial court still in operation?
In fact, the teachings of Taoism and Buddhism are not much different. Although they practice this life, the two religions also encourage people to be good.
Besides, is it necessarily a good thing to be submissive? Is it right to cultivate the afterlife?
If the state of Chu was invaded by foreign enemies, and the imperial court conscripted troops, and the whole country believed in Buddhism, it was right to suffer and be killed in this life.
Wasn't the emperor dumbfounded on the spot?
What are you doing?
Of course, these are not the most important, the most important thing is the issue of money.
Because Taoism pays taxes!
The incense money of Chunyang Taoist Temple, as well as the surrounding health care products sold, should pay a lot of tax!
This immediately pierced the hearts of King Xian and Emperor Chu!
Since the transactions are similar, one gives money and the other sucks blood, who supports who suppresses whom, this situation is too clear!
Chu State is not like Zhao State who is stupid and doesn't care about money. Everyone in Chu State is a money fanatic!
They value whoever can give them money.
Just like Xu Qing, who founded a huge national business academy, the first thing Chu Huang and Xian Wang think of is him.
Nothing compares to their silver.
Silver is armament, and armament can be used to measure the area of a country!
The goal of Chu State has never been a corner of the Central Plains.
The dream of the state of Chu is to reproduce the prosperity of the great Han Dynasty, even if one day it must perish, it must perish by being strong!
How can you be strong without enough silver?
Moreover, are they supporting Taoist sects?
Is it a Taoist priest?
That is clearly a series of self-sufficient gunpowder research institutes!
It's just too much for Chu's appetite!
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Naturally, the Japanese people don't know what's going on at Chunyang Taoist Temple, and they are still making intensive plans.
Even in order to find out the layout of the Chunyang Taoist Temple, they sent many spies to sneak in among the believers during the day and step on the spots in advance.
The three consecutive days of stepping on the spot also allowed them to feel the terrain clearly.
It is even more clear where the gunpowder is refined.
Although they couldn't enter the backyard of Chunyang Taoist Temple, they could clearly hear the roaring sound that often came from the backyard.
It seems that the place where gunpowder is experimented is really in Chunyang Taoist Temple!
And the formula must be kept in the backyard!
And Master, a disciple of Chunyang Taoist Temple, will sleep peacefully at night, and his work and rest are very regular, which is a great opportunity to steal the gunpowder formula!
And they also chose an auspicious day as the date when they stole the gunpowder formula.
Now, they think they are in control, and I have the advantage!
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night without moon
The on-duty disciples of Chunyang Taoist Temple closed the gate, checked around and found nothing abnormal, and then began to patrol around.
In Chunyang Taoist Temple, except for the on-duty disciples, very few people stay up late, because the Master said that if you go to bed early and get up early, your health will be good.
There is only one situation when you need to stay up late, that is, there are too many pilgrims, and the incense on each Great Hall has not been burned out, and the unburned incense cannot be extinguished. You must keep people in each Great Hall until it is burnt out, otherwise it will be harmful. Patriarch disrespect, this is the rule.
Fortunately, it was cloudy all day today, and it might rain at any time, so few believers came, and there were not a few incense sticks in total.
Therefore, after blowing out all the candles and taking fire prevention measures, a few people were left guarding the Taoist temple, and most of them could sleep.