Jia Hu, a fan of wealth in the Red Chamber

"Then, master, if you use this kind of good fortune, kid, will it dissipate?" This question must be asked clearly, otherwise, what should we do when the good luck is overdrawn in a daze!

Master Xuanming laughed, "Of course, the difference between gain and loss is just a rule of heaven. If there is gain, there will be loss, and if there is loss, there will be gain. But as long as the little benefactor has kind thoughts in his heart and accumulates merit, he is still afraid of good luck." Disappear?"

Jia Hu thought about it, "So that's the case, I understand. Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and the way of heaven is like reincarnation. If you don't believe me, look up, who will be spared by the sky, right?"

Jia Hu said this very seriously.None of the people present had ever heard such a statement, but it was an extremely vivid description, so apt that even Lin Hai, a Tanhualang, couldn't pick anything out of this kind of nondescript doggerel.

Master Xuan Ming nodded with a smile, "That's right, that's exactly what it means."

Jia Hu nodded, turned to Wei Jiang and muttered, "It seems that we still need to do more good deeds, what do you think?"

Wei Jiang nodded solemnly, since Master Xuanming has said so, no matter it is for Brother Hu, or for the relatives and friends around them, he should continue to do it.

Jia Min listened quietly, her eyes flickering with deep thought from time to time.Thinking of the birth of the second brother Jia Zheng's second son, with a piece of colorful jade in his mouth, his mother Shi Shi seemed to be happy, and said that the child was a good fortune.But in the past two years, the child has behaved mediocrely. I really don't know where the great good fortune that the mother firmly believes in comes from?

But the eldest nephew, Jia Hu, was already well-known at a young age.Now listen to what Master Xuanming said again, the child with good luck is Brother Hu, right?

It seems that for the boxing ceremony in May, the one sent to Rongchangbo's mansion should be prepared more.

After listening to Master Xuanming's scriptures again, the group left and went to their own business.

In the meditation room, after Master Xuanming sent them away, the unshakable morning class began.

The morning sun shone on Master Xuanming's body, emitting a soft halo. Gently touching the string of Buddhist beads emitting bursts of sandalwood with his fingers, he really felt a sense of majesty.

After an unknown amount of time, the door of the meditation room was pushed open silently, and an old monk with a gray beard walked in.

"Senior Brother." The old monk who came in saluted Master Xuanming Heshi and called him Senior Brother.

"You're here, sit down." Master Xuan Ming opened his eyes and looked at the person who came, as if he was not surprised by this person's arrival.

He nodded, pointed to the futon beside him, and signaled him to sit down.

The visitor sat down as he said, "Brother, in the first lunar month, the imperial court promulgated a new tax code, and it will be implemented next month. Others are nothing, but it is clearly stated in the code that it will be taxed to major temples, Taoist temples, and nunneries. , church farms, shops, and land taxation. Brother thinks, how should we deal with this matter?"

Master Xuan Ming was silent for a while, he didn't know how to answer this question.

After a long time, he said, "Oh, this matter is really difficult to deal with. Yu privately, as a monk, the poor monk is very unwilling to pay taxes. Yu Gong, you have to admit that this tax law, Good for the country."

Master Xuanming glanced at the person, and continued, "Now the new tax law only collects taxes from the farms, shops, and land under our name. I heard that the original tax code actually included the collection of monks, Taoists, and monks according to the head. , Ni’s poll tax, compared to this, is already good.”

The visitor lowered his head and sighed.

Why doesn't he know?Now that the prosperous age is beginning to appear, it is the time of vigorous development, but some temples, Taoist temples, and nunneries occupy a large amount of fertile land, and the people who rent and plant these lands, even farm slaves, this phenomenon is really important for the country. Not a good thing.

Furthermore, the poll tax is collected to prevent those who commit crimes from escaping the laws of the country and fleeing to Buddhism to avoid disaster.

In the past, these lands did not need to pay taxes to the imperial court. Some monasteries with big appetites annexed land everywhere, and some evil monks even appeared to occupy good land by improper means.

Before that, he also knew that the imperial court just couldn't spare their hands to deal with those people, and when the imperial court freed up their hands, a rectification would be inevitable.

It's just that money is touching people's hearts. They say they are people from other places, and they are all empty, but in fact they are just ordinary people. They also have to eat and dress, and they have to feed the entire population of the temple, right?

Now, the imperial court is about to impose heavy taxes on them and exempt the agricultural tax. This is obviously to encourage monks and Taoists to return to the vulgar and farm the land. It is conceivable that a trend of returning to the vulgar must be inevitable.

There was a moment of silence in the meditation room, and after a long time, Master Xuanming spoke first, "This matter is beyond our control, and what ideas we think of is nothing more than a mantis' arm. The court's collection of taxes has not touched our fundamentals. Facing the imperial court, but it is not good to please, what should be handed over, let's hand it over."

These words, Master Xuan Ming decided after careful consideration.Before Shen Tuqian came to the throne, he and Jia Huwei Jiang jointly established Yuanfeng Commercial Bank. It can be said that this is the most successful emperor who has participated in the most commercial affairs in history. Being in business has allowed him to not worry about money at all. With money, he is even more confident.

Don't you see, all the weapons in the army have been replaced with firecrackers that can be fired in bursts, and Hongyi cannons are also manufactured in large quantities to supplement the army.They are just a small temple on the land of Daqi, how can they resist those well-trained troops?

It is said that those who are close to vermilion are red, those who are close to ink are black, Jia Xiaohu loves money, and he is a guy who advocates force. After hanging out with him for a long time, he has somewhat contaminated his temper.If you don't dare to listen, you will be beaten up once, the beating hurts, and the beating is frightening, then you will naturally listen.

Facing such a powerful emperor, what can they monks do?

Jia Xiaohu, who had already walked to the yard, sneezed suddenly, looked up at the sky, "Who is secretly scolding me behind my back?"

"But..." The visitor was still a little unwilling.

"It's just paying taxes to the imperial court, not cutting off the temple's livelihood. It's not wise to fight against the imperial court for such a small amount of tax money, Xuanxin, you should put the overall situation first."

The monk called Xuan Xin lowered his head a little. Everyone understands the truth, but it is very difficult to do it.

Master Xuanming finished what he had to say, ignored Master Xuanxin, closed his eyes again, and recited scriptures silently.

Outsiders don't know what happened in the meditation room.

Back in the rented yard, Jia Hu immediately took out a pen and paper and began to write and draw.

Seeing him like this, Wei Jiang shook his head helplessly. Once this guy gets serious about something, even eight cows can't pull him back.They rushed to Master Xuanming's place in a hurry this morning, they haven't had breakfast yet, and it's almost noon now.This time, he just lay there motionless, really.

Resigned to his fate, he ordered Qingfeng to go to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat, and prepare it for Jia Hu. With this guy's appetite, it wouldn't take long for him to be hungry.

How could Qingfeng not know what kind of virtue his master is?Even without Wei Jiang's order, he would have wanted to go to the kitchen a long time ago. Hearing Wei Jiang's words, he immediately trotted all the way to the kitchen.

There was nothing else to do for a while, Wei Jiang moved over to Jia Hu curiously, wanting to see what his so-called charity would do.

When he saw the title of the article written by Jia Hu, he was shocked. "Plan on the Establishment of Yuanfeng Charity Foundation", he recognized each of these words, but when they were combined together, he had such a feeling of ignorance.

"what is this?"

"It's not clearly written on it, it's a plan for a charitable foundation." Jia Hu replied as a matter of course.

"...I'm asking, what is...the Foundation..." At this moment, the brain circuits of the two people are obviously not on the same level.

"It's like this." Putting down his pen, Jia Hu patiently explained to Wei Jiang what the foundation was.

Wei Jiang listened very seriously.

In fact, Jia Hu himself just copied the articles of association of those successful charitable foundations in the later generations, wrote them up first, and then handed them over to the people below after he returned, and asked them to delete or modify them according to Daqi's actual situation. Either plus or minus.

In short, let's get the framework out first, and then we can only cross the river by feeling the stones in practice.

After listening to Jia Hu's explanation, Wei Jiang finally figured out what kind of foundation Jia Hu wanted to build.When he first heard about this so-called foundation, Wei Jiang was not very optimistic about it. Is it really possible to set up such a charity organization?It's better to support shantang.

After thinking about it carefully, I found that the concept proposed by Jia Hu might really be feasible.

Sitting aside, he quietly watched what Jia Hu wrote, and began to think in his heart, of course it is good to do good deeds, but how to do it requires careful thinking.

There is no doubt that if this so-called charitable foundation is really created by Jia Hu, then this is a place that can gather a large number of people's hearts, and who needs to be in charge is the most important thing.

Well, of course my cousin is going to be the chairman of the council that Hudi set up. No one can compete with him for this position.As for the "Secretary-General", we have to wait and see.

It took Jia Hu half a day to finish writing the plan between deletions, deletions, and revisions. Seeing Wei Jiang sitting aside, he immediately greeted Wei Jiang and started discussing it together.

After confirming that it was correct, Wei Jiang wrote a letter in his own hand, calling Luo Yun, handing over the plan and the letter to him, and asking Luo Yun to go to the capital himself, and hand over these to the present day. Then they don't have to worry about it.

It was getting late, Jia Hu and Wei Jiang finished their work, washed up and went to sleep.