Seeing Dai Zhou's confident expression, Li Shiming and Du Ruhui looked at each other, then simultaneously looked at the scroll in their hands and opened it.
"Buddha Annihilation!"
Seeing the two powerful words on the scroll, Li Shiming and Du Ruhui couldn't help but gasp and focus on reading.
After reading it, Li Shi Min's eyes lit up, and his face showed his interest.
If it was really according to the test paper, the temple was a treasure!
Not only could the golden Buddha statues be directly sold for money, but the monks and nuns could also increase the population after they renounced asceticism. The buildings and land in the temple could also be nationalized!
All they needed was an imperial edict to take all the wealth into the national treasury!
This was a great deal of money!
However, he was not sure if Buddha Annihilation could really accumulate the supplies of hundreds of thousands of troops. The temple had really gathered such wealth that could rival a country!
"Cough cough."
Du Ruhui coughed a few times and quickly took out a handkerchief to cover the corner of his mouth. After wiping it, he put it away in his sleeve.
Then, he looked over curiously." Xuanyin, can Buddha Annihilation really accumulate the military resources of two to three hundred thousand troops?”
Dai Zhou replied,"Your Majesty, before I entered the palace, I went to the Chongxuan Department to ask. Our Tang Empire has more than three thousand temples and more than thirty thousand Lanruo (monk residences)."
The Chongxuan Department was under the jurisdiction of Honglu Temple. It was an official department that specialized in managing Taoism and Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty. It was in charge of the number of temples and the records of Taoist priests and monks.
"Three thousand, thirty thousand!"
Li Shimin and Du Ruhui were dumbfounded.
Even if there was only one Buddha statue in each temple and each monk's residence, there were still more than 33,000!
"Gulp!"
Li Shiming swallowed awkwardly and looked at Du Ruhui. Both of them saw the obvious greed in each other's eyes.
However, Dai Zhou had not finished his words." It occupies an area of over ten thousand hectares and has over 300,000 monks and nuns."
Pa!
Li Shiming suddenly slammed his hand on the desk and shouted," A mere bald donkey dares to gather a crowd to cause trouble!”
"Men, quickly summon the Minister of the Chamberlain of Dependencies, the Prime Ministers of the three provinces, and the Ministers of the six ministries to see me!”
Gathering people to stir up trouble, with evil intentions!
Du Ruhui and Dai Zhou's bodies trembled. They looked at each other and understood that His Majesty was determined to destroy Buddha!
The Buddhist Sect was bound to be destroyed. Not only did it have such a huge amount of wealth, but it also had such a large population!
300,000!
Even some provinces and prefectures of the Great Tang didn't have this many people!
After giving the Buddhist Sect a death sentence, Li Shiming smiled again and stared at the other scroll in Dai Zhou's hand.
"Xuan Yin, then what is written on the scroll in your hand?”
Qin Chuan's examination papers had never disappointed him. There was no need to think too much about it. This scroll was probably something that would be of great benefit to the country.
"Your Majesty, these scrolls contain new farming tools.”
Dai Zhou hurriedly presented it.
"New farming tools?"
Li Shi Min frowned.
He opened it and saw a paper filled with drawings of farming tools of all sizes.
It was indeed a farming tool. Li Shimin was a little disappointed.
He had thought that it would be some national plan, but he did not expect it to really be just farm tools.
"The curved shaft plow only needs one person and one cow, which can save half of the labor compared to the usual spring ploughing."
Like many emperors who were born in noble families, Li Shimin did not understand agriculture. The only opportunity to work in the fields was to go to the imperial manor during the spring ploughing every year.
Plowing the fields was a political show of the ancient emperors of Huaxia.
Ever since Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the emperors of every dynasty would go to the fields to step on the mud at the beginning of spring every year to announce the beginning of the new year's spring plowing. At the same time, it also showed the importance the emperor attached to agriculture.
Although he did not understand agriculture, he could understand the meaning of words!
"It can save half of the labor? Is this true?"
Li Shi Min looked at Dai Zhou in surprise.
If he could save half of his labor, the other half could do too many things!
For example, wasteland reclamation, or military service
Dai Zhou shook his head with a bitter smile." I don't know either, but I've asked a professional farmer. If he really follows the instructions, it will definitely increase the efficiency of farming.”
"This lowly subject has already ordered people to forge the style according to the test paper. In a few days, we will know if it is true.”
"Yes, agriculture is the foundation of the country. If the new farming tools are useful, we can promote them.”
Li Shi Min nodded with a smile," I didn't expect Qin Chuan to be so proficient in farming.”
Qin Chuan had given him too many surprises!
Agriculture, civil administration, military strategy, national policy, it could be said that they were all-encompassing. They were the pillars of the country!
Dai Zhou continued," Your Majesty, this new farming tool is easy to test. However, there is still a paragraph in this test paper. I don't know how to judge it, so I brought this test paper for Your Majesty to decide!”
"Oh? Was there something on the paper that was difficult to judge?”
Li Shi Min curiously held the test paper in his hand and looked up.
"Your Majesty, please take a look."
Dai Zhou walked over and pointed it out to Li Shimin.
"In the Southern Barbarian Land, there is a country that occupies the city's rice."
Not picky about the soil, drought resistance!
The growth period was short and early, only 50 days from planting to harvesting!
It could be combined with late rice to become double-harvest rice and be sown in turns!
It could produce two stones per mu!
Seeing the description of Zhancheng Rice on the paper, Li Shimin was shocked and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
"Two stones per mu! This, this is real?"
Such drought-resistant, early-maturing, and high-yield crops were simply divine!
Two stones, made in Tang Dynasty, one stone 120 catties, two stones 240 catties.
Grain that could produce 240 catties of grain per mu was not a rare thing in modern times. Grain that could produce more than 500 catties per mu was everywhere.
But in the Great Tang, this was a divine item!
In the Great Tang, a mu of millet could only produce a stone of grain.
It doubled!
Moreover, it could be combined with late rice to form a double-harvest rice and be sown in turns!
As an emperor who had walked out of a chaotic world and experienced years of natural disasters, no one knew better than him what this meant!
Facing Li Shimin's questioning, Dai Zhou could only continue to put on a bitter face,"I don't know either."
How would he know if Lin Yi Kingdom had Champa Rice?
Not to mention him, even Qin Chuan himself wasn't sure if there was any rice in the city.
After all, that thing was only introduced to China during the Northern Song Dynasty, which was hundreds of years away from the Tang Dynasty.
"I only know that there is indeed a country called Linyi. As early as the sixth year of Wude, its king Fan Fanzhi sent an envoy to court.”
Li Shimin thought for a while and nodded." Yes, I remember that there is indeed a small country like Linyi.”
"I also attended the banquet of the eighth year of Wude. The Retired Emperor even specially held a banquet for his emissary, the 'Nine Music' and bestowed it with a royal brocade.”
"Your Majesty, what about the rice in Zhancheng?" Dai Zhou asked.”
"It's better to believe it than not!”
Li Shimin calmed down and said," I'll let Jiaozhou Governor Li Daliang handle it personally!”
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