"Ping'er, why is this money not enough as we calculate it?" Li Yuanji asked, looking at the budget sheet in his hand.
I originally thought that Tang Ping had secured various sponsorships, programs and activities, etc., so they could still use the 10 million yuan.
As a result, the people below summed up various expenses and found that there was still a shortfall of almost 10 million.
Tang Ping sighed: "Yes, there are places where you can make do with it, but you don't want to make do with it. After going back and forth, you realize that you are spending more and more money."
"Then what should we do now?" Li Yuanji shook off the budget sheet in his hand: "Where else can I grab... No, can you help us a little?"
Tang Ping thought about it, looked at Li Yuanji and said, "How about you, Third Uncle, donate some?"
"Okay!" Li Yuanji agreed immediately: "I can give you one million. You know, no more."
Tang Ping nodded. Li Yuanji's aquatic products business has been big in recent years, but now he has extended his business to Fuso and Oshu Road. The initial investment in this business is still quite large.
So it’s not bad to get one million out.
As for Li Jiancheng and Li Xuanba, one is not very involved in these business matters, and the other is looking for fights outside the border every day, which is hopeless.
There was also an emperor, Li Shimin. Even though he was called Tian Khan, he was said to be the king of the world. However, he had too many people to support and his internal treasury was never very rich.
"Forget it, let's go to the palace." Tang Ping thought for a while, and he had to shoot this arrow. Tang's Trading Company can advance the difference first, but how can he repay Tang's Trading Company with tax cuts in the future? , there must be some regulations.
The two entered the city from the east of the city. When passing Jingshanfang, Tang Ping suddenly heard a familiar voice.
"You are acting like a monk! You have completely disgraced the monks. You are just a group of robbers and hooligans!"
"Did you know that I, Duke Heping, am a close friend? Aren't you afraid that I will ask him to demolish your temple?"
Looking out from the car, I found that the person jumping and cursing on the side of the road was actually Tang Sanzang.
"Old Tang, what's going on?"
Tang Ping looked at Tang Sanzang, and then at the person he was scolding. It was Daxingshan Temple, an ancient temple in Chang'an, where Master Tripitaka was said to have translated Buddhist scriptures.
This temple was built in the Jin Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, monks from India who came to Chang'an to preach and study abroad all translated Buddhist scriptures and taught Tantric Buddhism in this temple. Therefore, it became one of the three major translation sites for Buddhist scriptures in Chang'an, and also the center of Chinese Buddhism. The birthplace of Tantra.
When Tang Sanzang saw Tang Ping, he ran over and said, "I just found out today, where is the Buddhist pure land here? It is simply a place where filth and people gather, and it is simply scum!"
Tang Ping had never seen him so angry before. Seeing that the door of Daxingshan Temple was closed, no one paid attention to him even if he cursed outside.
So he pulled Tang Sanzang into his car: "Tell me, what happened?"
"Hey!" Tang Sanzang sighed: "Didn't you bring back some Buddhist scriptures from Tianzhu? There are many people in Daxingshan Temple who are proficient in Sanskrit, so So I chose to translate here with the monks in the temple."
"But this morning a mother and her son came and begged the monks in the temple. I went up out of curiosity and asked, only to find out that the name of Daxingshan Temple is Xingshan, but that's not what it does."
"They actually loaned us usury money. Because the mother and her son were three days late in changing the money, the family's only farm property was taken away as a mortgage."
Usury is actually usury.
Throughout the ages, Buddhist temples have been the largest loan sharks.
It's just that after Tang Ping came, both the people he contacted and those who followed him quickly became rich and wealthy. If anyone in Shanghe Village wanted to borrow money, they could just go to his convenience store and borrow it. No one had contact with these Buddhist temples.
So he really forgot about this incident, and only remembered it after listening to Tang Sanzang.
He turned to look at Li Yuanji: "Do private loans take place in temples?"
"That's right!" Li Yuanji nodded: "All the major temples in Chang'an have such lending business, but the interest rates are high, and people need to use real estate or chattel as collateral to borrow money."
"Your Majesty, you have no objection?" Tang Ping asked in surprise.
"It's useless for Your Majesty to have any opinions!" Li Yuanji shook his head and said, "People are always in need of emergency help. If the court bans the lending business of these temples, it can't ask the people to borrow money from the government, right?"
"Why not? The government lends money to the people at lower interest rates. Shouldn't the people be willing to come?" Tang Ping was a little confused. This was indeed a blind spot in his knowledge.
"The main thing is that the government doesn't have that much money to borrow, and what should I do if sometimes I encounter someone who really can't pay it back, or who refuses to pay it back? Then when it comes to collecting debts, there must be some means. But the government has to use these The means are... unjustifiable."
Tang Ping understood that this was firstly a problem of funds, and secondly, it was troublesome to collect debts, and the government was not willing to do it.
So this matter finally fell on each temple.
"The government can absorb the spare money from the private sector and then lend it to the people. As for management, it can form a separate institution responsible for deposits and loans."
"It's not that simple." Li Yuanji pointed to the plaque of Daxingshan Temple: "Look at that plaque. It was there in the early Jin Dynasty. It has been more than four hundred years now. And Our Tang Dynasty is not even twenty years old!”
"There may be many dynasties changing in a hundred years. We want to absorb the spare money from the people, but people have to dare to put money in the government? If there is a change of dynasties, won't the money be wasted?"
"But look at this temple, no matter how the dynasties change over the past four hundred years, it has no impact on them, so those who save money are more willing to keep it in their hands."
As long as there is no large-scale movement to exterminate Buddhism, these temples are indeed not affected by dynasty changes.
In fact, the several campaigns to exterminate Buddhism in history were not so much that the leaders could not stand Buddhism, but rather that the leaders at that time had a direct conflict of interest with these monks.
The temple has a large amount of land but does not pay taxes, which greatly affects the national tax revenue.
Then monks were exempted from corvee and military service, which invisibly reduced the country's population by a large amount.
The "Three Martial Arts and One Sect" movement to exterminate Buddhism is basically related to these two reasons.
Tang Ping looked at the closed door of Daxingshan Temple and said with a smile: "There are things that the three martial arts and one sect can do, but I, Tang Ping, can't do it?"
After speaking, he looked at Li Yuanji and said, "Didn't Third Uncle say there is another place where we can rob money? I didn't think of it just now, but now that I think about it, wouldn't it be great if we rob these temples?"
"Robbing these temples? Really?" Li Yuanji was also fearless. He clapped his hands and said, "I'm going to call the soldiers and horses."
Tang Ping had a dark look on his face: "Third uncle, this is not the kind of robbery you think!"
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