"Why is it called 'Buddha Jumps Over the Wall'?" Li Longji was curious about the name of the dish.
"Some Buddhist disciples abstain from meat and fish. Buddha Jumps Over the Wall has meat and fish. It's because the taste is so good that Buddhist monks who abstain from meat and fish eat it. It can also be said that the disciples jumped over the wall to eat it."
Li Yi briefly explained that some people ate meat and drank wine in the Tang dynasty.
Some people didn't eat meat and fish. It was said that the order to abstain from meat and fish was added into the doctrine by the previous emperor.
The political power and the doctrine influenced each other.
If the religious power was strong, the political power would be weak. The political power needed to act according to the local religious power.
If the political power didn't listen to the religious power, the political power would be eliminated.
On the other hand, the religious power was controlled by the political power.
"The temple occupies a lot of land and there are many monks." Li Yi thought of the temple when he was thinking about who should listen to who had more power.
"A lot of land belongs to the temple. They don't need to pay rent." Li Longji had already restricted Buddhism. He even chased some people out of the temple.
But he still wanted to go further. He didn't need Buddhism or Taoism.
The newspapers had always been promoting Chinese civilization and the Tang dynasty.
The people of the capital government went to the temple less and less. They no longer gave money for incense and oil.
They even stole incense and took it home to use for their longevity tablets.
The land that the temple once gave was still harvested every year. They also lent money to the outside world.
Some people couldn't pay back the money they borrowed. They could only give their land to the temple, which increased the land of the temple.
Now the capital government and the surrounding people didn't care about the money they borrowed. The interest was high.
The people were more willing to borrow money from the Li Family Zhuangzi, such as buying clothes, building new houses, and buying livestock.
They didn't borrow money to buy food. There was enough food to eat. They made money from picking tea leaves, wormwood, and ice storage.
But they didn't have enough money for big things. They borrowed money from the Li Family Zhuangzi. The Li Family Zhuangzi sent people to provide livestock for Jianhe.
The Li Family Zhuangzi's expenses were low. The people paid back the expenses in installments.
It was considered suppressing the monasteries, but it was only limited to the capital office and the surrounding areas. It was beyond their reach.
Thinking of this, Li Longji's mood worsened.
"Let them rear pigs." Li Yi was in a good mood. Since there was a place and manpower, let's rear pigs.
"Raise pigs?" Li Longji was puzzled. Why did he suddenly want to ask others to raise pigs?
"They were more relaxed. They chanted scriptures and recited doctrines. They recited them while rearing pigs. Also, their good fields are used to grow indica rice. "
Li Yi said with an expression of great concern for the disciples of Buddhism, the kind that bemoaned the state of the universe and pitied the fate of mankind.
If his eyes hadn't unconsciously narrowed, the others would have believed him.
"Good idea." Li Chengqi voiced his support. Yes, tell the people in the temple to raise more pigs. The common people need to eat meat.
Cooking pig food, cutting pig grass, and cleaning up pig dung did not affect the chanting of sutras. Chanting sutras and serving pigs was a happy thing.
Empress Wang rubbed her belly and said, "Yes, they don't go to war, and they don't pay rent. We don't ask them to manage the Grief Tian Square anymore. They should do something for the Tang dynasty. "
"Good!" Li Dan said.
"We should have done so long ago." Noble Consort Lu agreed.
"How do we rear them?" Li Longji began to consider the specific aspects. The matter of asking monks and Taoist priests to rear pigs had been decided.
"Cooperate. We can't let them suffer losses. Let's let Sitong Temple … Li Family Zhuangzi. I'm worried that the people of Sitong Temple will be biased. "
Li Yi wanted to do it through the officials, but he thought that the officials were unreliable. It would be troublesome if he had to deal with them.
"My Zhuangzi will produce piglets. They will be responsible for rearing them. They will give me a hundred pounds of pork for each pig they raise. The rest will be their profit.
Keep the seeds that should be kept. Before the female piglets are slaughtered, they must produce a litter of piglets.
The piglets produced will still be mine. They will continue to raise them. The extra ones will be distributed to the common people. "
Li Yi began to talk about the specific data. He would only produce piglets. Others would help to raise them, and he would take the meat and the new piglets.
Princess Yongmu liked to eat pork, so she knew about it.
When she heard that it was a hundred pounds of pork, she frowned slightly. "Li Lang, isn't a hundred pounds too little?"
Xiao Lan nodded on the other side of Li Yi. It should be two hundred pounds.
"It's pork, without bones and offal." Li Yi emphasized the words he said.
How big could a litter of pigs grow from the beginning of the year to the end of the year? What was the percentage of meat produced after they were slaughtered?
If the sows were slaughtered, they would gain weight quickly, but they would be slow to give birth. It was the same for boars.
According to the conditions he proposed, the monks and Taoist priests would not be able to recoup their capital. They would need annual subsidies.
Fortunately, he did not pursue the percentage of lean meat. The common people of the Tang dynasty did not like to eat lean meat because it was not oily.
If they wanted more lean meat, the pigs would have to exercise, run, and swim.
"All their incense money will be used!" Li Chengqi gloated. He was happy.
Those who believed in Buddhism and Taoism would still give money. They would give money to the temples and Brother Yi would turn them into pork and piglets.
Brother Yi would not earn this money if he turned around and gave it to the common people.
It was equivalent to the monks and Taoist priests working to contribute to the Tang dynasty.
If anyone disagreed, they would be enlightened by the Winged Knights, the 16 guards, and the 30,000 soldiers.
"If there is effort, there will naturally be returns. I want to translate more scriptures and print a batch for them to study and preach."
When Li Yi bullied others, he wanted to give them some benefits.
The Tang dynasty was still working hard to translate scriptures, especially Buddhist scriptures.
By his time, after generations of translations and annotations, the content of scriptures had become broader and deeper.
Especially in terms of interpretation, whether it was Buddhism or Taoism, the different opinions given by later generations were the most precious.
In terms of debating scriptures, Li Yi could use the scriptures of that time to debate the current monks.
He believed that the pig farmers would be satisfied if he took time to copy one or two scriptures a year.
Just like medical books, if he gave out medical books, the learner would have to treat others for free as tuition.
Only acupuncture, massage, and medicinal herbs could earn money.
"Brother Yi, thank you." Li Longji thanked him.
Starting from the beginning of spring next year, the temples and monasteries in a large area would start to raise pigs. By the end of next year, when the results were out, they would be promoted to further places.
Li Yi ate a mouthful of vegetables. "There are many lazy monks and Taoists. The fields belonging to the temples and monasteries do not cultivate themselves. Instead, they rent them out to other people."
Li Yi mentioned another thing. The monks and Taoists in the temples and monasteries lived a happy life all day long. There was a hierarchy.
The lower the level, the more tired they were. At the top, they ate well and slept well every day, but did not work at all.
There was no such thing as cultivating and watering their own crops.
They rented the land to others and collected a lot of rent. At the same time, they did not pay the rent.
There was no such thing as mediocrity. They were equivalent to landlords who did not pay taxes.
Some of them had frequent contact with the royal family and aristocrats, and even had illicit relations.
Li Yi was thinking about continuing to change. There were so many tenants working for the monks and Taoists. It was better to work for the Li Family Zhuangzi.
"Move the people who work for them to me. The people are too poor. I will take care of them. I don't want their rent."
After Li Yi finished speaking, he looked at everyone. Everyone looked at Li Yi and nodded, meaning that he could take them if he wanted.
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