Chapter 0788 Too much money in the court is also a trouble(2/3)
Kou Ji saw that Lu Yijian and the others were staring at the money in the courtyard of Daxiangguo Temple, so he couldn't help but give a reminder.
Lu Yijian, the three of them didn't look very good-looking.
Because such money was recovered from just one Daxiangguo Temple. After all the temples in the world are surveyed, the amount of money recovered will probably be an unimaginable amount.
Such money is only used for the promotion of elementary education, which is too extravagant.
With the large supply of money from Dali and Jiaozhi, the elementary school education in the Song Dynasty was basically on the right track.
The initial investment in elementary education is the largest, because it involves purchasing land, building a school building, and purchasing some necessary things.
But the later investment will not be that big.
In the later stage, it is only necessary to maintain the school building, provide the salary of the Meng Xue teachers, and provide books for the Meng Xue children.
Although the cost is also high, it is not as high as the previous period.
The money obtained from the inventory of all the temples in the world should be able to support the studies of the elementary school children in the past few years.
It won’t cost that much money to promote elementary education for a short time.
Therefore, money piled up in the treasury is a waste and should be used.
Li Di from Hexi and Wang Sui from Xingqing both petitioned the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would approve some money for them to use to divert water.
There are rivers and deserts in Hexi.
The same is true around Xingqing.
Desertification control in Hexi has achieved initial results.
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of Li Di and the people of Hexi, Hexi gained another 100,000 acres of forest land last year.
Those forest lands were obtained from deserts and barren Gobi.
Li Di mentioned in his memorial that if the imperial court approved some money for him to open canals and divert water, the forestation rate of the desert and Gobi would definitely accelerate exponentially.
Because they have figured out how to control sand and how to control the Gobi desert.
After Wang Suizai learned that Li Di was effective in controlling desertification in Hexi, he sent people to find Li Di to learn from him.
Now he wants to follow Li Di's example and manage the desert around Xingqing.
Sand control and water diversion is a big project.
Naturally, a lot of money is needed.
After the two men's memorials were delivered to the imperial court, the imperial court still did not respond.
Now that they saw the money they got from inspecting the temple, Lu Yijian and the others became interested.
But before they could open their mouths, Kou Ji blocked their words.
"You can't..."
Wang Zeng gritted his teeth and spoke.
"cannot!"
Kou Ji flatly refused before he could finish his words.
It's not that Kou Ji doesn't know their thoughts, it's just that the money he got from inspecting the temple is really hard to give to them.
Why not give it?
Because with the inflow of money from Dali and Jiaozhi, prices in the Song Dynasty have begun to rise.
It's not obvious right now.
Because the money that flowed into the Song Dynasty from Dali and Jiaozhi entered Yizijiaozipu first.
After being controlled by Yizijiaozipu, it slowly flows into the private sector, and has little impact on prices.
But if Lu Yijian and others use the money gained from the inventory of temples all over the world to build two huge water canals, a large amount of money will rush into the people at once, and the prices among the people will definitely rise.
The gap between rich and poor will widen rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Prices will also rise to the point where it is difficult for poor people to buy.
At that time, huge conflicts will arise.
Enlightenment is only now becoming more widespread.
Most of the people are still illiterate.
Once there is a huge conflict, the people will not bother to listen to what you say, and they will decisively rebel.
By then the damage to the Song Dynasty will be great.
Therefore, the first task of the Song Dynasty now is to make the people rich before prices rise to the point where it is difficult for poor people to buy.
After Wang Zeng was rejected by Kou Ji, his face turned ugly.
Seeing this, Kou Ji smiled and said, "Although I can't give you the money I found, I can give you the land I found."
Lu Yijian and the others stared in shock.
Kou Ji continued to smile and said: "Perhaps you three can consider how to reasonably distribute these fields to the hands of poor people."
With the methods used by Lu Yijian and the others, they can definitely avoid the evil hands of most wealthy families and distribute the land to the poor people.
Lu Yijian and the other two fell into deep thought after hearing Kou Ji's words.
After a long time.
Zhang Zhibai stared at Kou Ji and asked, "What do you think the productivity of the fields identified is."
Kou Ji thought for a moment and said, "Those who can't afford to eat should be given fields. The exact amount depends on how much can be found."
"How long?"
"Three to five months..."
Lu Yijian and the three of them all stared in shock.
"So fast?!"
Even though it was easy for Kou Ji to clean up the Daxiangguo Temple, it was because Kou Ji had a high position and a lot of power, and he could mobilize a lot of power and suppress a lot of people.
The abbot of Daxiangguo Temple took out those things to threaten Kou Ji.
Kou Ji didn't care at all, and even dared to ask some soldiers to remove their armor and pretend to be bandits in front of the abbot of the Daxiangguo Temple, pretending to be a bloody massacre of the Daxiangguo Temple.
Try it with someone else.
Emperor Taizong's imperial edict to enshrine Daxiangguo Temple alone was enough to frighten the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty.
Kou Ji was probably the only minister in the Song Dynasty who dared to act recklessly in the face of Emperor Taizong's will.
People in the local government cannot act as recklessly as Kou Ji, and the manpower they can mobilize is limited.
Naturally, they would be very slow in checking out the temples all over the world.
If this is completed within two or three years, it will be highly efficient.
Therefore, Lu Yijian and the others naturally found it difficult to believe Kou Ji's claim that he could complete the inventory of all the temples in the world within three to five months.
Kou Ji said calmly: "Is this fast? The officials directly ordered local soldiers and horses to attack all the temples in the world without going through other local yamen.
It is already very slow to inspect all the temples in the world within three to five months."
Lu Yijian and the others stared, not knowing what to say.
It is really fast to mobilize troops and horses to attack temples all over the world directly without going through other local yamen.
After all, military orders are like mountains.
Even if Zhao Zhen ordered them to die, they would still carry it out.
Zhao Zhen asked them to go out to grab money, food, land, and maybe even dividends. How could they still be unhappy?
They don't know how to reason with others, and they don't care who is behind you or what life-saving things you have.
Anyway, Zhao Zhen has made a decree. No matter how big the issue is, Zhao Zhen is responsible for it.
They have nothing to worry about.
All you need to do is rush into the temple with a knife and clear out everything.
If you just do this, the impact and consequences will be very serious.
First, there will be complaints from local administrative offices.
People will also have complaints.
Those soldiers did not take much care in their actions, and they might kill too much and cause many lives.
There are many monks who are good at deceiving people.
If the soldiers cause trouble and cause many lives, monks who are good at deceiving people will definitely take the opportunity to trick the people into causing trouble.
It can be a civil unrest at the least, or a rebellion at the worst.
"It's too confusing!"
To be continued...