Wei Guangde was very satisfied with the idea of sending the Mongolians stranded in Qinghai when the Gansu Governor Hou Donglai invited Sonanga to Ganzhou to promote Buddhism and expelled the Mongolians stranded in Qinghai.
However, although Wei Guangde was satisfied, he did not immediately vote for his opinion. Instead, he read the memorial again and noticed many issues that he had not paid attention to before. That is, after Hou Donglai arrived at Yanghua Temple, he learned that Altan Khan actually asked more than 100 Mongolian royal children to become monks with Sonam Gyatso.
Seeing this, what Wei Guangde felt was not Altan Khan's belief in the Glu religion, but that the influence of the Glu religion on the grasslands since then was no longer comparable to that of other religions.
The Mongolians used to believe in shamanism, but now the Mongolian royal family has changed to Glu religion. Obviously, Inner Mongolians will undergo great changes due to religious changes for a period of time.
Wei Guangde's focus is actually more on these royal children who became monks and monks, who could not marry or have children after they became monks. What would happen if ordinary Mongolians followed suit and let their second sons become monks?
You should know that on the Mongolian grassland, the demonstration effect played by tribal leaders is very powerful.
As long as these people become monks, there will not be much impact in the short term. However, in the long run, the religious expenditures that grassland people need to bear will increase, but more importantly, the population.
If a regime wants to develop, what cannot be escaped is population issues.
At least in the next few hundred years, the most important pillar of economic development is actually not population, which is a very important factor.
The machinery industry requires a lot of labor, not machines replace manual activities.
In fact, after the Industrial Revolution, countries generally lacked people, so in the following hundreds of years, the population of various countries increased explosively.
Of course, there are also discoveries from the New World, which have expanded the living space of human beings, especially the inexhaustible daily necessities in the New World, which can fully meet the consumption pressure brought about by the surge in population.
At the same time, the population is both a producer and a consumer, and remains unchanged from beginning to end.
If the population on the grassland decreases due to joining religion and becoming a monk, or the growth is limited, then the Mongols want to continue to expand outward in the future, which is just a mirror and water.
Wei Guangde suddenly had a bold idea in his mind.
When building a temple, he built temples in the territories of various tribes on the grassland, so that the young and powerful tribes in these tribes could enter the temple to become monks.
Wei Guangde suddenly felt that he could not write a copy of this seemingly ordinary memorial in his hand.
If the Ming Dynasty could really spend huge sums of money to build temples on the grasslands and limit the population of Mongolia, the threat from the Ming Dynasty to the north might be completely resolved from now on.
However, it is no small matter to use huge amounts of money to build temples for the Mongols.
When building temples for the Mongolians, the Ming Dynasty cannot do nothing. It is not that the Ming Dynasty pays for construction, but that it has to build some of them.
In the entire Jiubian important town, each important town also built a Glu Buddhist temple, and it must be built magnificently.
Taking it as a benchmark, the Ming Dynasty invested in some of the few things in Mongolia, and it was even more grand for the Mongolians to donate their own funds to build temples that were comparable to the Ming Dynasty.
While undermining the Mongolian population, they must also consume their financial resources.
When the tribes competed with each other for the magnificent temples in their territory, the Ming Dynasty's goal was achieved.
Wei Guangde suddenly stood up, picked up Hou Donglai's memorial, and quickly walked out of the duty room.
"Master, you are"
At the door, Wei Guangde suddenly went out, frightened Lu Bu who was standing outside the door, and hurriedly bowed and said.
"I'll go to the prefecture's side. You can watch it first at home. If you have any urgent matters, just report there."
Wei Guangde said, then walked towards Zhang Juzheng's room.
Although the ban on the academy caused a little estrangement between the two, it did not break up.
The most important thing is that Wei Guangde followed Tan Lun's analysis and did not take the lead in opposing it.
Although he did not support this decision, he said so wherever he went.
Without confrontation, the two continued to cooperate with each other in handling government affairs, and no one wanted to see a fierce battle breaking out in the court.
"Is the prime minister in there?"
When he arrived outside the duty room, Wei Guangde asked the clerk outside the door.
"Sir, I'll go in and report now."
Not long after Zhang Juzheng came, he was reading a memorial when he saw the clerk coming in and telling him that Wei Guangde was coming.
"Please hurry."
Zhang Juzheng stood up and greeted him directly.
"Shandai, what happened when I come here?"
When Zhang Juzheng saw Wei Guangde enter the door, he hurriedly asked.
"Brother Uncle, this matter has a long story, so let's sit down and talk slowly."
Wei Guangde bowed and said.
"Look at me, I don't understand the etiquette anymore, please sit down."
Zhang Juzheng hurriedly welcomed Wei Guangde and sat down, and asked the clerk to bring tea quickly.
"Wait outside, don't tell me not to come."
After the tea was put down, Wei Guangde said to the clerk and drove him out of the duty room.
Zhang Juzheng didn't say anything, but just looked at him curiously.
He felt that Wei Guangde should have thought of something again and needed to talk to him alone, so that was the case.
"This is Hou Donglai's memorial, uncle, let's take a look first."
Wei Guangde took out the memorial from his sleeve and handed it to Zhang Juzheng, picked up the tea and took a sip.
Zhang Juzheng quickly browsed the memorial after receiving it, and his expression on his face was exactly the same as Wei Guangde had before. He was surprised and then realized it.
"Shandai, Donglai has a good idea, I think I can agree.
Let Sonangacuo come to Ganzhou, and you can also win over it and let him do things for my Ming Dynasty.
Didn’t you consider using Sonangacuo to allow the imperial decrees to enter Tibet?
As long as you maintain a good relationship with this living Buddha, you may be able to do it.
However, everything will have to be confirmed after he arrives in Ganzhou and depends on his performance. ”
Wei Guangde's previous plots on Tibet were not mature in all aspects, especially the objections of the Ministry of War, and could not be implemented for the time being.
However, Zhang Juzheng still remembers that if the conditions are met, he can give it a try.
"Brother Uncle, haven't you seen the memorial mention that Hou Donglai discovered in Yanghua Temple that more than 100 Mongolian royal children became disciples of Sonangato?"
Wei Guangde reminded with a smile.
"I saw it. It doesn't seem to be surprised that Altan Khan believes in Buddhism and let his children become monks."
Zhang Juzheng said with a smile.
Wei Guangde has some comments that later generations have read, which vaguely mentioned that the Qing Dynasty controlled Mongolia and weakened the strength of the Mongolians, which encouraged the Mongolians to be monks.
But Wei Guangde saw that very general and was not careful. It was only when he saw more than a hundred royal children becoming monks today that he had aroused hidden memories.
Zhang Juzheng did not have it, so it is naturally impossible to think of other influences between the lines.
Wei Guangde looked at Zhang Juzheng with a smile on his face, but he still said seriously: "Brother Uncle, does these Mongolian royal children become monks and monks really have no effect?"
Wei Guangde reminded.
"The Yellow Church has received wider support among Mongolian tribes, but that's all."
Zhang Juzheng thought for a moment, and thought that these children and the families behind him were all leaders of various tribes on the grassland. With these people in hand, the spread of the Yellow Sect on the grassland can be said to be without any obstacles.
However, Zhang Juzheng still didn't expect anything else.
Wei Guangde still stared at the increasing gradually, then the smile on his face gradually dissipated, and he became solemnly and said, "Before, I mentioned that a temple was specially built in the capital for the Gru and Huang Cult leader to preach in the capital.
At the same time, we must spread the Yellow Sect on the grasslands, so that more Mongolians can believe in the Yellow Sect, so that they can know the cycle of cause and effect and let them put down their butcher knife.
Thinking about it now, what we did seems to be not enough. ”
Wei Guangde said slowly.
"What else do we need to do?"
Zhang Juzheng asked frowned, and the smile on his face had disappeared, instead of a solemn look.
He couldn't understand what Wei Guangde had thought of, and it was actually like this.
"Nine Borders, we all have to build large temples for the Glu Church, and also build temples in the tribal territories on the grassland. The regulations are worse."
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Wei Guangde continued to say that he was induced by Zhang Juzheng step by step, hoping that he could accept his ideas, and there was something simpler than letting him figure it out.
As long as he can think of it himself, he has fully understood it, which is much better than asking him to give the answer directly and then explain it.
Subsequently, under the guidance of Wei Guangde, Zhang Juzheng gradually understood what Wei Guangde meant.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of these royal children becoming monks to promote and encourage the Mongolians to send their children to the temple, leaving only one for the family to inherit the family business and pass on the family line.
Restricting the population growth of Mongolia, while using the method of building temples to consume the financial resources of the Mongolians.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolians were no rivals in terms of population and financial resources.
When ten or twenty years later, the population of Mongolia remains unchanged, and the financial resources are not used to arm saddles, armor and swords, but to build a magnificent temple, then the situation of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia will undergo fundamental changes.
"When the Mongolian elite cavalry naturally grows old or consumes in Tibet and is in the war for power for the Gelug religion, there will be no elite cavalry on the grassland, and Genghis Khan's cavalry that dominated the world will no longer exist.
At that time, the Mongolians could only become a nation that shepherded the Ming Dynasty and sent cattle, sheep and horses to the Ming Dynasty for a living. ”
Wei Guangde finally said what he thought was the result, but it was also the most beneficial result for the Ming Dynasty.
"Taking these royal children as examples, the Mongolians are encouraged to send their children to become monks and build temples"
Although Zhang Juzheng felt that Wei Guangde's plan was very imaginative, it seemed that operability also existed.
Rewarding these tribal leaders who sent their children to the temple and then fooled them with religious words, such as giving them a bliss after death. Isn’t this the reason why religion despises people’s hearts?
As for what the Ming Dynasty had to pay, it was just the money and materials needed to build the temple.
The artificial part was automatically ignored by Zhang Juzheng.
"If it's the Tao"
Zhang Juzheng only started to shut up and consciously shut up.
He wanted to say why it was the Yellow Sect rather than the Han Taoism, or Buddhism. In fact, Taoism was once very influential on the grassland.
But then he stopped talking. Now the lord of the grassland is Altan Khan, and he believes in the Huang Sect, not Taoism.
If Altan Khan believed in Taoism, he would naturally build a Taoist temple for him.
"It costs a lot of money."
Zhang Juzheng said with a change of topic.
"It's much better than dead people to solve it."
Wei Guangde shook his head gently and said, "The army attacks the plan, using this strategy can be used countless times as much as directly launching military affairs.
Just in time, once the whole world is measured, the annual income will increase significantly, which should be able to meet the consumption.
As for what my uncle is worried about, the imperial treasury is not surplus, and there is still a Taipu Temple Changyingku to prepare the foundation, so there is no need to worry too much. ”
It is indeed very dangerous if the national finance has no surplus. Once a natural disaster or war occurs, the court will have no silver for relief or maintain the war.
Fortunately, the emperors of the previous Ming dynasties had already considered this and created Changyingku to reserve money and made plans for the future.
As long as Chang Yingku of the Ming Dynasty can be maintained forever, the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty may not have happened.
It’s just a pity that because of their two apprentices, Emperor Wanli, Zhu Yijun, they directly lost all the money they saved by several generations of emperors.
The difference between money placed in Changyingkuli and in the inner court is huge.
It is really difficult to use Changyingku's money.
Emperor Jiajing was so short of money that he didn't dare to reach out directly.
Yan Song's power infringes on the court and the public, so he can only borrow and repay.
As for the future, it was Yan Song's model. He could borrow some emergency response from Chang Yingku, but he did not dare to occupy it directly.
But when the money comes to the inner court, no matter how much money is spent, it is just a matter of the emperor's words, and he has completely lost supervision.
Chang Yingku's silver cannot be taken out unless it is a war. It is all the money of the Ming army's horse materials, and it only belongs to military expenses.
Even if it is a natural disaster in China, it can only be borrowed for emergency disaster relief.
"Hou Donglai's memorial should be drafted first.
As for what happened later, let me think about it again.
Once this plan is decided, it is not enough to spend money in it once or twice. ”
Zhang Juzheng did not agree directly. Although the scene described by Wei Guangde was very attractive, the price was not ordinary.
It can be said that if Wei Guangde really does this strategy, it will almost consume most of the wealth he accumulated for the Ming Dynasty by reform.
Moreover, this matter cannot be decided by the two of them. We have to discuss it with the inner court and get support from the palace.
At the same time, the Ministry of Revenue must also know about this matter, and it must be made clear when the Shangshu and the Shangshu hand over it.
Because in the next 10 or 20 years, the Ministry of Revenue will continue to spend money on this plan, until the Mongolians are completely trapped and build temples by themselves.
Although Zhang Juzheng did not agree at once, Wei Guangde also realized that he had actually been shaken.
So, he took the memorial from Zhang Juzheng, got up and went out after chatting for a few words, and went back to his own room to continue working on the job.
However, today, whether it is Zhang Juzheng or Wei Guangde, his energy is not actually focused on official business, so would he sit down and post for a while?
When Lu Bu entered the value room to collect the processed memorial, Wei Guangde took out Hou Donglai's memorial and put it on his face, and said to Lu Bu: "You will personally send this memorial to the Sili Supervisor to Chen Ju. Please ask him to deal with this memorial urgently, so you can't delay it."
"Yes, Master."
In fact, Lu Bu also knows the general content of the memorial sent.
This is the benefit of working around the big guys, and it is well-informed.
However, he naturally couldn't even think of what Wei Guangde saw in this memorial, and Zhang Juzheng himself could not think of it.
"Go."
Wei Guangde waved his hand after giving the order. (This chapter ends)