After Wei Zheng read this document, he immediately felt convinced that these Buddhist monks were obviously using the word "monastery" to confuse the public and should be banned. As for the remaining words, "yuan" and "an" are mostly used by Buddhism, and "gong" is more commonly used by some niche sects. Of course, "gong" is also called Daming Palace and so on.
Generally speaking, it refers to a tall house. Taoist temples dedicated to the gods and ancestors of heaven and earth are also called palaces.
As for temples, they are also a mixture of official, folk and Taoist temples, and are mostly used to worship gods, ancestors, etc., such as the Ancestral Temple.
Temple is generally a Taoist term. Anyone named so-and-so temple is a Taoist temple.
These words had little impact on the Tang Dynasty, because people already had the concept of temples and palaces in their minds. On the contrary, this temple was the most easily affected.
After Wei Zheng read it, he thought about it and took the document directly to the two officials from Shangshu Province and Zhongshu Province, and naturally showed them the document.
Regarding this document, these two people thought about it and did not object.
There were many Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty, but the rise of Buddhist temples did not reach a feverish level. Especially after His Majesty King Qin solved the problem of food for the people in the Tang Dynasty, fewer and fewer people believed in Buddhist temples. Instead, the people worshiped His Majesty. There are many common people with His Majesty’s immortal tablet.
The people are very simple. They will naturally trust anyone who can bring them benefits and allow them to survive.
Therefore, there are not many Buddhist temples in the Tang Dynasty, and their reputation is not prominent. Although they exist throughout the world, they have not penetrated into the hearts of the people. It is indeed too late to change them at this time.
In addition to stipulating this, this document also stipulates the levels of imperial departments.
The highest institutions are naturally the three provinces. Below the three provinces are ministerial-level institutions, and below the ministerial level are the temple-level and department-level institutions. Temple refers to an independent department under the six departments of the original Shangshu Province. For example, Dali Temple is affiliated to the Ministry of Punishment, but it is only responsible for investigating cases and is equivalent to the courts of later generations.
Temple represents a single department under a multi-functional department.
In addition, there are divisions under each department. Division means to be in charge. This is actually a position. It is the person who presides over a certain task, such as the merit examination department, which is the position held by the official in the Ministry of Personnel who is responsible for inspecting the performance of officials.
In fact, the reason why the Division became a department more than a thousand years later was because the Division took the place of the Temple. It was originally the Temple, but as a result, the Temple was occupied by a certain sect, so it was replaced by the Division, which was also a replacement.
And now that the Tang Dynasty still had time to change it, there was no need for these things to be the same as those of later generations.
Therefore, the position of Si is equivalent to the official in charge of a temple, which is also equivalent to the department-level cadres in later generations.
At present, the positions in the Tang Dynasty are basically based on this level. The top ones are naturally the officials of the three provinces. These are the national-level cadres in later generations. The minister is equivalent to the minister-level cadres, the temples and divisions are equivalent to the department-level cadres, and the following are county-level cadres. Grade cadres are equal to the division level in later generations, and the lowest department level.
As for the grade, Li Ke is naturally too lazy to change it. Those officials should be responsible for it. The grade represents a person's monthly income level, which is two different things from his position. Of course, it will generally be linked.
The official levels of the Tang Dynasty totaled nine grades and eighteen grades. In fact, these systems were distributed quite completely. If this fails in the future, the nine grades are now divided into Zheng and Cong.
If the number of officials increases in the future, in order to increase officials' remuneration, it is really not possible to directly create three levels: regular, subordinate, and next level. Wouldn't this mean 27 levels?
After meeting Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji, the three of them called several chief officials to discuss it again.
"This is okay. It just happens to be implemented together with the names of the restructuring of all states in the country proposed by His Highness last time." Fang Xuanling put forward another opinion.
"Can."
The state restructuring meant canceling the original Tao. After all, the Tao was too large for the future Tang Dynasty.
The highest local administrative level in the Tang Dynasty was the state. Anyway, the original Dao in the Tang Dynasty was also a temporary unit. Many Dao did not have the highest chief. A Dao was composed of governors from many states.
Now Datang has changed to a total of six administrative levels: state (province), prefecture (city), city (prefecture-level city), county, township/town, and village.
As for some cities and regions that are originally named after states, it would be better to add prefecture or other titles to represent their administrative levels.
For example, for Yizhou and Yangzhou, the official names are Yizhou Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture.
As for the name of the big state, Li Ke directly copied the division and naming of provincial units in later generations.
As for whether it sounds good or bad, whether it is awkward or not is not within the scope of Li Ke's consideration. To put it bluntly, awkwardness means that Li Ke himself is awkward. For example, the name of the big state in Yizhou is called Chuanshu.
As for whether Sichuan Shuzhou sounds good, it sounds good to everyone after being called a thousand years, and everyone is used to it.
After the agreement was reached, the three provinces began to prepare the edict directly. This time, His Majesty did not even need to notify him. He only needed to make a backup copy when needed. Because now His Highness’s decree can be directly implemented.
It really saves a lot of steps.
Although Li Ke had long proposed the reorganization of the name of Daozhou and the division of jurisdictions, it has not been directly implemented because the division of administrative districts has not yet been completed.
The maps in his warehouse include accurate maps of various provinces, cities and other jurisdictions. It is not a small project to change and reprint these.
It's impossible for Li Ke to be so meticulous as to change all the names. It's not impossible. Anyway, the time in the warehouse is almost not lost, but doesn't that make him more tired? Even if you are just tired outside, you are also tired inside the warehouse? crazy?
So he just took out the blank terrain map, kept the boundaries on it and the locations of several large cities in the Tang Dynasty, and left the rest to local personnel to fill in.
After the filling is completed, return to Chang'an and print again.
It is estimated that this work will take at least two or three years to complete, especially in places like Sichuan, Sichuan, and Qiangui, where some people from the mountains are migrating to the nearest plain areas under the influence of the Tang Dynasty's decree.
Those villages and towns will definitely need to be changed.
So only a rough division is needed.
This time, the map division of each state has been completed, and the three provinces will be notified directly.
For the Buddhists all over the Tang Dynasty at this moment...well...there is no way to resist, or to start silently changing their names. Naturally, the first names to be changed were the names of various Buddhist temples in Chang'an, which were all changed to yuan.
There is no way, the Buddhist temple is still used more, is it possible to really change it to such and such a view? Doesn’t it feel like Buddhism has completely turned into Taoism? Of course it can't be used like this. As for the word palace, everyone skipped it by default.
Although the Tang Dynasty court did not impose restrictions, what if there are restrictions in the future? Are you not happy for yourself?
Most Buddhist temples choose courtyards, and a few choose temples. As for nunneries, this is not a big problem.
But what has to be said is that when Datang Weekly spread the news to the world, and after members of the security forces in various places told the people in the villages under their jurisdiction, many people really just suddenly realized it.
They really didn't know that the temple was originally a court government office, and they always thought that the temple was a Buddhist temple.
Many people have indeed murmured before, why did a government office like Dali Temple learn the names from the Buddhist temple? This time, it can be regarded as completely spreading knowledge to all the people of the Tang Dynasty.
In such an atmosphere, Li Ke gave these generals lessons while arranging internship positions for them.
