Maybe it was because of the fact that Samurai was not easy to follow Li Yuan to fight the country, or maybe it was because of Samurai's diligence outside and benefiting the people. So after Samurai's death, Li Shimin personally issued an order that Samurai's funeral expenses were paid out from the national treasury, and he followed Samurai's will and arranged for people to send his coffin to his hometown in Bingzhou for burial.

The coffin of the warrior was to be delivered to Bingzhou, so Wu Mingkong and his daughter naturally had to go with him. In fact, a funeral was also held in Bingzhou. So on the day of leaving, Li Xiu also went to see him off and told Wu Mingkong to return to Chang'an after burying his father.

In fact, there is no need for Li Xiu to remind him that Yang would definitely take Wu Mingkong back to Chang'an after burying her husband, because after Wu Shishiya passed away, she knew that the Wu brothers would definitely not be able to tolerate their mother and daughter, and the only one who could decide for them was Wu Mingkong's husband Li Xiu. Moreover, Wu Shishiya also left some industries in Chang'an. As long as these industries can be preserved, their mother and daughter's future lives will be guaranteed.

After sending away the coffin of the warrior, Li Xiu spent most of his time in the study and wrote a plan for the establishment of a bank. After all, this matter may be related to the future prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, so we cannot be in a hurry. We must be fully prepared. Li Shimin also knew this, so he did not urge him.

In contrast, Wei Zheng, the monks and Taoist Records, has begun to operate normally, and laws that restrict the development of religion have also begun to be issued to various prefectures and prefectures. Statistics on the number of monks and Taoists and temple lands in various places are also underway. Chang'an and Luoyang, which have completed the fastest statistics, have begun to issue certificates.

However, the certificate of the throne cannot be obtained by any monk or Taoist priest, but must be evaluated by the monk and Taoist priest. For example, monks have to teach Buddhist scriptures and their understanding of Buddhism, while Taoist priests have to take the Taoist priests to take the Taoist priests. Even I heard that Wei Zheng wanted to take the elixirs to take the elixirs, but because there is no unified standard for alchemy, he had to do it in the end.

From the time when the sacrificial certificate was issued, the temples and temples in Chang'an and Luoyang received news that they must go to the monks and Taoist records in Chang'an or Luoyang for assessment within three months. After three months, monks who cannot get the sacrificial certificate will return to secular life. Taoist priests are not allowed to regard themselves as Taoist priests in the future. Only monks and Taoist priests who have obtained the sacrificial certificate have the right to preach.

Faced with such an open suppression by the court, both Buddhism and Taoism were naturally unwilling to wait for death. Originally, the two religions were fighting each other, but this time they were rarely united. At the beginning, they used the connections they had accumulated before to incite the ministers in the court to put pressure on the court, hoping that the court could take back the decrees issued by the monks and Taoists before.

However, Li Shimin nodded in person this time when he attacked the monks and Taoists. Moreover, Wei Zheng, who was in charge of this matter, never cared about anything, so it was useless for anyone to come forward.

Seeing that it was useless to take the upper level route, the monks and Taoist priests in Chang'an and Luoyang finally became anxious. The first thing they couldn't sit still was Buddhism, because Taoism mainly took the upper level route, and most Taoist priests worked part-time. For example, Sun Simiao, his main job was a doctor, and Taoist priests were only part-time jobs. At that time, he liked to dress up as a Taoist priest. Although the monks and Taoist tutors also had a great influence on Taoism, they were much smaller than Buddhism.

During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism was very prosperous. There were tens of thousands of monks alone. Moreover, monks were not like Taoists who usually serve the people and become monks. All monks were formal monks after being ordained. But if they were assessed and obtained the sacrificial certificate according to the requirements of the court, only God knew that the number of monks who could get the sacrificial certificate in the end. After all, the court originally wanted to reduce the number of monks. As long as they were tampered with some tricks during the assessment, they could control the number of people who passed.

It is precisely because of this that some of the major temples in Chang'an and Luoyang secretly communicated with news, and then prepared to sit in front of the imperial city gate together. If the court did not withdraw the laws restricting Buddhism for a day, they would not go back for a day, and would prohibit food and drink during meditation, which was actually exactly the same as the hunger strike protests in later generations.

However, before the monks from these temples united, Feinusi had already found out about this news in advance. Then the garrisons from Chang'an and Luoyang went out four times, and each temple was guarded by troops. It is said that before the assessment, the court should protect all monks to have a quiet environment to learn Buddhism, so during this period, it is strictly forbidden for anyone to enter and exit the temple.

Although the court's garrison around the temple caused quite a stir among the people, the Tang Dynasty is now stable and the people are very rich. Not to mention anything else, the promotion of commercial crops such as sweet potatoes has basically solved the problem of hunger. Therefore, although the people have complaints, they will never make trouble with the court because of this.

What's more, many people still remember the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the Tang army was definitely not vegetarian. Haven't you seen the Turkic people on the grassland being killed by the Tang army? Now Cheng Yaojin and others are also slaughtering in Dangxiang, so even if someone wants to cause trouble, they have to guess whether their neck is harder than the army's steel knife?

In fact, only a generation of heroes like Li Shimin who had expanded their territory dared to do this. Although he was not the founding king of the Tang Dynasty, most of the entire Tang Dynasty was defeated by him, and he also destroyed powerful enemies outside and the people were very rich. His prestige among the people was naturally unattainable. Li Shimin has even now had a tendency to be deified among the people. Compared with the mud fetuses in the temple, Li Shimin, the living true dragon emperor, is naturally more powerful.

It is precisely because of this that the matter quickly subsided. Although temples cannot be entered for the time being, they have little impact on ordinary people. After all, religion cannot be eaten or drunk. Burning incense and worshiping Buddha is just a request for peace of mind, and the court will not ban it forever, so it will naturally be released after three months.

Half a month later, Li Xiu finally sorted out the plan to build a bank, and then went to the palace to submit the plan to Li Shimin. Li Shimin also attached great importance to this and immediately summoned Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui to Liangyi Hall, and then discussed Li Xiu's plan together.

Li Xiu was very cautious about banking matters. In his plan, he only opened banks in Chang'an and Luoyang as a pilot. Of course, there is no need to distinguish between the central bank and the commercial bank now. After the bank is opened, it will open deposits, exchanges, loans and other businesses, which are similar to later commercial banks. Of course, if you want to start these businesses, it will definitely not be as easy as in later generations. Not to mention anything else, just the transmission of information is a big problem.

In addition, this bank has a function that commercial banks do not have, that is, issuing currency. Li Xiu is more cautious about this matter, because currency is related to the fundamentals of a country, not to mention that Li Xiu also wants to reform the current currency of the Tang Dynasty.

In order to maintain stability, Li Xiu did not want to change the existing copper coins in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, there was a reform of copper coins, which was to change the Wuzhu coins that had been circulated for hundreds of years to Kaiyuan Tongbao. This was mainly due to the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the issuance of copper coins was also very chaotic, resulting in the Wuzhu coins at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the style was irregular. So in the fourth year of Wude, Li Yuan ordered the casting of the "Kaiyuan Tongbao", and stipulated that each ten-ciete weighed one liang and the weight of each cite was one qian.

The country was strong in the early Tang Dynasty, and the quality of Kaiyuan Tongbao was guaranteed and the shape was very exquisite and heavy. Even in later generations, Kaiyuan Tongbao in the early Tang Dynasty was still loved by many people. In contrast, Tongbao money after the middle Tang Dynasty became thinner and rough again.

Now the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty has replaced the original Wuzhu coins and become the circulating currency in the Tang Dynasty. The people have recognized this kind of copper coins, so Li Xiu also felt that there was no need to change it. Even when minting silver coins in the future, they only changed the material and still used the Kaiyuan Tongbao, so that it can be easier to get the recognition of the people.
Chapter completed!