Of course, a considerable amount of bamboo paper is used to print Buddhist scriptures and other books after it is made.

These things are all related to Huguo Temple.

Now in Xingyuan Mansion, with the support of Dayin Gaoyue, the power of Master Mingxuan’s Pure Land Sect Huguo Temple has expanded very rapidly in the past two years. Master Mingxuan has trained several excellent backbone Buddhist temples, not only preaching locally in Xingyuan Mansion, but also spreading the Pure Land Sect to Banan, Jingyuan, Fengxiang, Jinshang, and even Shannan Dongdao.

However, Master Mingxuan never engages in "sacred associations" like other Buddhist sects (similar to modern temple fairs) to encourage good men and women to donate money and corn. Master Mingxuan follows the path of the third-level religion: setting up a "Eternal Life Library" in a Buddhist temple, which is also a vault.

The Changshengku is actually an "endless treasure" that imitates the third-level Buddhist teachings.

The Endless Treasure is derived from the "Endless Treasure Gift", which is the so-called believers give alms to Buddhist temples and monks in order to show their support for Buddhism. The most important one is "Endless Treasure Gift". There are fifteen categories, which fifteen categories? Japonica rice, glutinous rice, corn, noodles, oil, beans, soybeans, firewood, and cannibalism (believers are obliged to cook for the vegetarian food in the Buddhist temple, which is also considered a kind of donation), salt, honey, ginger, pepper, cheese, flax, fruits and vegetables, used to practice Taoism and spread the Dharma. They are stored in temples on weekdays and slowly form a vault, which is "Endless Treasure Gift".

However, Endless Treasure does not believe that as some scholars believe, it is used by temples to lent usury to the public. In fact, Endless Treasure has three main uses:

One portion, used to add to the Buddhist temple;

One is used to help the poor;

One serving is used as a vegetarian order for monks (after all, monks must also eat when doing rituals).

The second one should be paid attention to. Sometimes the temple uses endless treasures to help the people free of charge, which plays a role in regulating society. However, when believers are short of resources, they can also borrow money from the temple.

This kind of borrowing money does not require a contract document, which is entirely supported by the believers' sense of faith and honor. Therefore, there are very few people who rely on the debt and do not repay it, because what you borrow is not the money from the temple, but the money donated to the temple by other believers. If you do not repay it, it is actually a bad cause and will definitely be repaid. Under the control of this concept, as long as it is possible, believers will definitely repay the money.

However, when paying back the money, a considerable number of believers also think that I will repay as much as I borrow, it seems that I am not religious enough! Therefore, there is often a phenomenon of actively paying back too much.

This is easy to be misunderstood as "wealth loan".

Of course, there are also a considerable number of temples that openly lend money to usury. For example, the interest rate of lending in temples in Dunhuang is 100%, far higher than the 40% upper limit stipulated by the imperial court.

Therefore, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang issued an edict to the passage, believing that the Third-level Sect was in Huadu Temple in the capital: "On the fourth day of the first lunar month every year, scholars and women in the world donated money, called the Dharma protector, saying that they helped the poor and weak, and they were often treacherous and deceived. If the matter was not true, it would be appropriate to be banned." He ordered the endless treasures of the Third-level Sect, and took out all the money. After the foreign temple was built, the others were scattered to the poor temples.

Therefore, Master Mingxuan’s immortality library must not only play the role of Endless Treasure, but also avoid the criticism that Endless Treasure has suffered.

After discussing with Xingyuan Yin Gaoyue, Master Mingxuan did this.

On the one hand, Huguo Temple continues to lobby the good men and women in Xingyuan Mansion to give alms. This remains unchanged. The rich can donate forty or fifty cents a day. Gao Yue takes the lead and donates one tenth of his salary from 5,000 guan a year. His wife Yun Shao will also donate one hundred guan from the powder money. As for the poor economic conditions and military soldiers, you can donate even a bunch of corn a year. This is not mandatory.

The Changshengku of Huguo Temple is obliged to set up temples in various townships of Quanxingyuan Prefecture and set up temple management. There is a "benevolent village" in the temple, responsible for relieving widows, widows, orphans. In the folk or military camps where the temple is located, the people and soldiers have a need for salvation. The monks of Huguo Temple must also provide free services. For example, the Baicao Army and Tu Group who went to Xiaoguan before, Mingsha, and the more than 500 soldiers who died in battle were rituals performed by Huguo Temple.

In terms of lending, the Huguo Temple Changshengku stipulates that people in the villages and villages where the temple is located must make a contract document and limit the repayment period, but there is no need to pay interest. If the loan money is used to purchase six livestock, seeds, and agricultural tools, it can be relaxed to eight cents; if the loan money is borrowed to five cents to twenty cents, the interest payment is paid ten percent, which is called "Qi Mo Qian"; if the 20 cents to fifty cents, the interest payment is increased by fifteen percent, and the interest payment is increased in sequence.

The military government of Xingyuan Prefecture, wealthy businessmen, officials and military generals can also store their wealth in the cabinet in Changshengku. However, unlike the cabinet in Chang'an that charges "collect money" (that is, the depositor has to pay the storage fee to the cabinet), after Gao Yue and Mingxuan discussed, they will do the opposite. Not only will the bulk of money and silk storage not only do not charge "collect money", but they will also return three or five percent of the "collect money" to you - to put it bluntly, it is somewhat similar to modern banks, and is used to gather private or official wealth and concentrate on major tasks.

As a result, Huguo Temple quickly took on the role of Xingyuan Financial Center. Its immortality database absorbed donations and cabinets, and also used interest-free lending to help Xingyuan's field soldiers and households shoulder the role of credit unions and cooperatives.

Not only that, Gao Yue also asked Huguo Temple to act as a role in disseminating knowledge and information to the bottom. He used Xingyuanyin's power to donate dozens of hectares of land to Huguo Temple at one time, and recognized that Huguo Temple hired "clean people" (that is, temple households, monks engaged in agricultural and commercial labor, so they had to find special Jing people to do it on their behalf) to manage land and make water. Huguo Temple can collect "description money" or collect "milling class money" from people who need water to grind wheat and rice during the harvest season - but Gao Yue also issued "harmony money" and "kefu money" to Huguo Temple.

He Baobao and Kefubao are actually two books.

The former means that in summer and autumn every year, Xingyuan Prefecture can "good the rice" and that is, the amount of grain produced by Huguo Temple Temple fields is stipulated by low-price. The temple cannot start the price; while Kefu Ben is the part of the "special products" of Huguo Temple that Xingyuan Prefecture wants to collect Huguo Temple. Which special products are there? It is very interesting. Gao Yue said that I only have a few things, Buddhist scriptures, almanacs and agricultural books, and you will pay them to me according to the quantity every year.

In ancient Chinese monks, some were in the snow and some were in the Xialiba people when preaching, but they were all the intellectual class at that time. Many monks were proficient in philosophy, medicine, calendar, astronomy, machinery and other subjects. Gao Yue could not let their talents be wasted, so he stipulated such a "scientific and technical school".

At that time, printing books was a job of spending money. It was printed on Yangzhou bamboo paper. A Buddhist scripture or epic would cost two or three chunks of money. This was difficult for ordinary people to afford. Now Gao Yue used the "Kafu" method to collect books printed in Buddhist temples, and then issued them to the temples in various townships for free to let the people read and study.

Therefore, the implementation of the Hebaobao and Kefubao is actually Gao Yue levying taxes from the temple in disguise!

This was still an unprecedented phenomenon throughout the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, Gao Yue and Huguo Temple have a symbiotic and common benefit relationship, and the implementation was not hindered. However, when he supported Huguo Temple, he had to copy these two books to other temples in Quanxingyuan Prefecture as follows!
Chapter completed!